Businesses Must Allow Fathers to Take Care of Their Children

• The pandemic recession has disproportionately affected women, wth greater employment losses.
• To recover from this, it’s time for workplaces to finally allow fathers to take adequate time off for childcare.
• Josh Levs is an entrepreneur, keynote speaker, and journalist.
• This is an opinion column. The thoughts expressed are those of the author.
• See more stories on Insider’s business page.

This Father’s Day, there’s a crucial message about gender equality and economics that should be blasted across the country: To recover from the “she-cession” — the

recession
that has disproportionately hurt women — one of the steps businesses need to take is to treat men as equal caregivers.

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