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OED gives the etymology from educare and the base Latin form would be educo but this had/has two different senses. The first is the rearing or raising of children, livestock, comparable to modern sense, and the second is to draw or lead out, to bring before a court, to raise, to bring up the rear, etc. I like what the second sense brings with the image of a civilized human being being drawn out of a great ape with a language facility. A: Being the default caregivers for kids and for the elderly, and for people who are sick, or destitute in our society.

And after school tutoring programs near me then on the other side of the equation, also filling in gaps in our economy. Women hold 70% of the lowest wage jobs in our economy. And they´re also the ones who disproportionately hold underpaid jobs at every sort of level of education that they might have. Things like child care, things like home health care, things like even K-12 teaching. We structure our economy and we structure our society in ways that push women into doing that work and then underpay them for that labor in ways that trap them in that system of exploitation, in similar ways to what we do at home.

And this is deeply damaging for women and for families in terms of the cost that it has for their well-being, for their stress levels, for their economic parity. And then the other kind of unfortunate piece of the data ... is that women actually face a higher penalty for using things like remote work options than men do, because they´re assumed to be using it for child care or other types of caregiving reasons.

They are discounted by their employers and penalized for taking these kinds of remote work options, passed over for opportunities for promotion, for example, and seen as less committed, even when men are taking the exact same opportunities. RADIANCE Centre for English Studies is the brainchild of a group of like-minded college teachers with excellent academic track We saw this massive increase in women´s employment during the war. At the end of the war, those women almost universally wanted to keep their jobs - they wanted to stay in the paid workforce.

But the easiest short term thing to do for the economy, once men were coming back and wanted their jobs back, was to push women back home. And this is not what many of our peer countries did. Other countries, like France, used this as a moment to completely restructure their economies, to build national permanent child care programs that allowed women to stay in the economy. Basically, there was no education. Monks and priests as well as a few nobility could read and write, but the population as a whole couldn't.

And teaching english kindergarten so at the time, Congress actually, with some pushes from a couple of women who had high profile positions in government, set up a universal child care program, set up national child care centers across the U.S., used defense spending through the Lanham Act to do so.