“They Go to Mommy First”

Research conducted by Danielle Rhubart, a post-doctoral scholar with the Maxwell School’s Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion, was cited in a New York Times article, “They Go to Mommy First.” Rhubart’s research brief, Gender Disparities in Caretaking during the COVID-19 Pandemic, found that “over 80 percent of U.S. adults who weren’t working because they had to care for their children who were not in school or day care were women.”