amanda once more downplayed the pirates using derogatory terms to describe brazilians who, in his words, were being fearful in the face of death. 19 has claimed the lives of 162000, brazilians, making it the world's largest hotspot after united states. i'll just sirrah, rio de janeiro. this is out there and these are the top stories u.s. president elect, joe biden has named his white house chief of staff despite don't trump's refusal to concede and allow a transfer of power. ron klain is one of biden's most trusted campaign advisers. alan fischer has more from washington d.c. claim or run a very tight ship. it's expected in the white house. he's very good a partly identifying what the key issues are and taking steps to deal with that.

and it's expected. he'll serve quite some time in the role as chief of staff, something that will be a real contrast to the trump white house, where we've had 4 in the last 4 years. be wrong claim that will be organizing calls with world leaders. those calls that we've seen joe biden make just in the last few hours. he's spoken to the leaders in japan, in south korea, and are still, you know, so those 3 leaders have acknowledged that joe biden is the president elect in the united states. 15 of hong kong's pro-democracy politicians are expected to formally resign after china's highest decision making body disqualified 4 of their colleagues. the government accuses them of being a threat to national security. the u.s. has warned china of further sanctions after the move. the current a virus continues to mount in europe. the u.k. has reported 595 deaths in 24 hours, while 623 new fatalities were recorded in italy. restrictions are being reimposed

in several states across the u.s. army as parliament has agreed to discuss protesters demands that the prime minister step down. there's anger over a cease fire agreement, which allows us to keep they captured during 6 weeks of fighting. a military operation in northern ethiopia is threatened. being to spill over the country's borders, promised yama, it ordered the offensive into gray region last week, accusing local forces of attacking a military base. several 1000 people have fled to neighboring sudan. at least 85 people are now confirmed to have died in the violence surrounding ivory coast disputed election. that's double the previous estimates. president al assad, what are went on to win a controversial 3rd term in october. those that lines the news continues here on al-jazeera after the stream talk to alter is there a school realistically? how can you do with interest or is corruption in this country? we listen. if this breaks up and are gone for good and india,

this has implications for the rest of the world. we meet with global news makers and talk about the stories that back to 0. hi, i'm femi oke a, enjoying the stream, while winning dropping out of the u.s. workforce. as the pandemic hits the labor market, advocates worry that years of economic advancements by winning could be in jeopardy . we want to hear your thoughts and experience a social to tweet us at a.j. strain. all leave a comment, and i live chat to join the conversation. the coronavirus pandemic has sent the u.s. economy and i doubt what products forcing many people, especially women out of work around 80265000 of women who left the workforce in

september compared 221-6000 men. that's according to analysis of labor department figures carried out by the national women's law center. one main reason is that women are overrepresented in several of the worst hit industries. another is the pressure to balance work at home life. have a listen to what resign a real stall with the stream about how she lost her job. so we're here with a 4 year old one year old with and typical enough. i was reminded of her only on my manager that he didn't want to hear my children on the back on a business call and went on for months to one where i asked if you want to meet my one year old in the room alone. and he responds with how to greet you can do you need to hear that coming from a father to employ who's working hard and jobs. i reported discrimination that i encountered for months and i was fired.

so here i am during a global pandemic where millions are out of jobs and jobs is important., joining us to talk about america's female recession in washington, d.c., nicole mason. she's the president and c.e.o. of the institute for women's policy research in florida. she's an economy reporter with the 19th news, and if a genius economist, diane lim, hello everybody. good to see you all collectively. nodding your head at wendy's on . i was sharing her story. a dyad. what was going on the office the resonated with you? well yeah, it's always been hard for women to maintain careers outside the home and to take care of their children at home. and it's just become even harder during this pandemic because of the merging of home life and work life. and it's

a shame that often women have male supervisors and bosses that may not really understand what the women are going through because they're not mom, cipriani, as an economy reporter, you make the figures that we should you put faces on those figures. if you were going to tell us a story that helped us understand what those ficus actually mean for households and women in families, what story would you tell us? well yeah, the figures are astronomical, right? you said it $865000.00 women this year in those 1st, few months of the pandemic. some 11000000 women lost your jobs from february to may . it's difficult to understand just what a huge number this is and how this is affecting folks. so there's one story that really stands out to me. there's a woman i spoke to earlier this year here in austin, texas. and she's a consultant. she has 2 sons. her husband is a doctor. and early on in the pandemic in march,

she was offered her dream job. i mean, talk about timing, right. so she was already dealing with the challenges of having her kids at home and realizing very quickly that this was not a sustainable situation for her family. so she had to turn that job down actually. and as the months wore on in the beginning of the year, she realized even the job that i have right now had a part time consulting position. even though job i have right now is not sustainable. and you know, as the of the assignments you know, piled on for her sons, her husband was working with coal with patients. he was on the front lines. his job was certainly essential. and she started to realize, if we're going to have to make a choice, it's going to have to be me. and unfortunately, my job is central to who i am. it's not separate from who i am as a person. it gives me autonomy, independence, and she was facing for the 1st time in her life. the reality of having to let it go

and wondering how long are the decisions that i make right now because of coping. 19, going to follow me into my professional future. because i would love you to help us understand which is some of the holidays hate businesses, jobs, areas of the workforce where women are losing their job to have to give up their jobs. i'm going to start by paying you a little clip from plane at pollini is from the national domestic workers alliance . this is what she told us a little bit earlier and take a look. domestic workers are house cleaners, nannies, interpreters by definition, the work is done from other people's homes, so they don't have the option to work from home. this means a pandemic has had a unique impact on this workforce. we've just released a report on the impact of covert under mastic workers over the past 6 months, which shows that at its worst, 7 out of 10 domestic workers have no jobs at all. more than half of respondents for 6 consecutive months, told us they were able to pay their rent. almost all domestic workers in the u.s.

are women, and 90 percent of those we surveyed are also the mothers of intl during the pandemic has been devastating for these women who were already working precarious jobs. and yet they are the essential workers that we depend on. you just pick up from where paulina left off about where is the hardest. 8 jobs as far as we mimic unsaid. so thank you so much. i'm so glad to be here in a part of this conversation. so the 1st thing i want to say is that the code 19 and the job losses have had a disproportionate impact on board wage workers and women of color and match because they are in sectors such as leisure, hospitality, restaurants. they work in restaurants, education and health health care field. so those are the sectors that have been hardest hit. but it's really important for us to know that it's many of the women who have lost their jobs or were women who were earning less than $40000.00

a year. and many of those were single bob. so and they have to leave their work in order their how their homes in order to get paid and also have caretaking responsibility. so i want to be, when we are talking about those topics really stretch ourselves to think about the different ways that this is impacting women in different sectors, especially women who are not 2, parent households. and, you know, facing different circumstances because in terms of who's being most most impacted it is, those workers, the domestic workers and the workers to our earning or in the lower wage jobs time . we have not yet done it. when i was going to say, you know, women of color also have less of a foundation when it, when something so drastic as this recession happened, right? so we know that black women, hispanic women, latinos are less likely are making less on the white male dollar. that and then

white women, we know that they have less than household savings less in income, in their household, they are far more likely to be the primary breadwinner. so these are people who are making impossible decisions. i mean, we're talking about women who are sent home and dealing with children and that is on its own an enormous challenge. but think about also this other group of women who are making impossible decisions. do i leave my kids at home and keep my job at risk of losing my job? if i try to figure out something with child care and miss work, i mean these are, these are decisions that are really impossible and or seeing is people. some people are leaving the labor force and some people are really trying to patch it together in any way that they can. but when a safety net falls through like it did this year, particularly with child care, it's very difficult to find those solutions. i am just looking at a graph here, my laptop in this is put together by a mccain z. . and it is comparing and contrasting how many are doing, how women are doing black and white black women in white women. and in every

category, women are doing the worst. so he is the legend here, gray is excluded. blue light blue pressured to work more. 5 group is exhausted. so compared to fathers and mothers feeling excluded. mothers ahead of fathers talking about being pressured to work more senior level men and senior level women here senior level men here senior level when much higher for the more pressure to be. so work more and then being burned out. men down here, round about 30 percent of women, much higher just over 40 percent. it seems to me that what kofi has done, and we've so many other issues as well, is what we already knew about our society, about the country, about our communities is now underneath a magnifying glass. and the 4 guys are beginning to show even more clearly than you

for diane. well, one thing i was going to mention is that women do hold those disproportionate jobs that were affected in the sectors that were most of adversely impacted by the pandemic. they also are more likely to work part time jobs and to not have a salaried full time job. and what that means is that they did don't have jobs where they would normally be provided the benefits that you get with a full time salaried job. so these are workers that when they need to take time off, they can't get paid for it. when they need health care, they don't have health insurance coverage by their employer. so these are always the most precarious jobs to begin with. and the pandemic. the fact that we've had to women have had to stay at home or with the kids has just made it more and more precarious in terms of economic well being. so it's time for the fact that,

you know, women rely on other women and especially like schools. to be open and you know childcare, babysitters to help them out to help them maintain a work life. and now that schools are not open. government really has left a hole like government was in directly supporting working women by supporting schools and helping schools open safely and watch the kids during the day. so i think it's just showing that government needs to step in a lot more than they have been because i got a question for you from each of i'm going to get most is the huge gap. only because of by gap,

do you mean the gap of women maybe in the workforce? a 165000 was that, that when we study that conversation, we were talking about how many more women are leaving the force that the what falls in the last 15 months compared to it is it is actually directly a result more directly, a result of the closers of schools and daycares across the country, and there is no strategy at this stage, federal or local level to get schools opened. so i am, i'll, so a single mother of 10 year old twins and when the schools closed in march, i thought i could just hold on and just make it, make it through the summer and then came and i was there kids are still out of school and it's been just an impossible task to manage a 40 to 50 hour week job and also be now home schooling 2 year old twins. and i cannot imagine that burden for a lot of other mothers. and i feel very fortunate because i can work from home,

but like i said, most women who have lost their jobs or struggling to make ends meet are not moms who can stay at home to work, to get paid. they have to leave the house. and so they're making impossible decisions, and for many women going to becomes when they have to choose between taking care of their kids and working, they choose to take care of their kids. how did, how did you manage that transition in the fall? nicole? i'm just wondering because a lot of the mothers that i spoke to at the beginning of the year were saying, we can't do this for a few months. we have no idea what's going to happen in the fall. how much longer we're going to have to, to take on that burden. so i'm just curious how, how you've been managing it since school started again, because obviously those numbers in september, that's when school started again, that's when a lot of kids went back to school virtually and at home. it's not, i don't think it's a coincidence that we saw that huge drop off happen in september. absolutely, i think you're absolutely right. and for me,

i have to say for 3 weeks my kids were great. by the way, they didn't, you know, i blame the parents. and the funny thing is, we are the last thing i think when you all think that those jokes full, well you have mom with a while. so against think the although in another the baby on her lap top on a singing meeting and then trying to do homework at the same time i thought is not sustainable. and we spoke to a number of women who have families and trying to keep their jobs at the same type . and this is what they shared with us have a lot. i was a full time anywhere up until april when i was laid off due to the ninety's in the 6 months since then, i've realized that the possibility of me reentering full time work or worse is

pretty difficult right now because my husband works outside the home and we have a young child who is in school now, and we're one of the lucky families. he's been able to hire a babysitter for 2 and a half days a week to cover house and assistance with virtual schooling for both children about leaves other 2 and a half days a week, where that's something that i have to cover. one of my sons has on his i'm so it's a little bit more difficult for him to sit at the computer for long periods of time and focus. and with my business, about 90 percent of my clientele is for events. and so right now, with a very important decision to decide between my children's education or going to pick up over another career and we're just to provide for my family. so what grade would make of cave child care in america right now? who would it be a c, a d failing grade, because that is, that is the issue here, isn't it? it's if, if mother was picking up the slack we got in childcare,

how is child care going to help parents? what play with making diet? i mean, i see a day yeah. yeah. i think it's generous. no little bit. maybe a full time now. yeah, i think i'm in there. yeah. all right. so how algae re, not like the 4 of us that has solved this. but what, where were the issues with child care in america? when there are no ready? because he stopped. the primary issue is that we, we reported a pandemic. we didn't have a strong character structure and many were working. mothers were struggling to figure it out on their own. and there was no support from either the federal government or employers and so repent them occurred and it just exposed that

brokenness of the system and the need for a national care infrastructure and employers. like i said, one of the 1st story that you like, it was pretty heartbreaking because i do feel in this moment in the absence of federal action. we employers do have a role to play in making sure that women cannot only really enter the workforce, but are able to sustain employment. and stories like are just heart breaking where women are really doing all they can to keep all the balls in the air and there's a lack of support and understanding to petty child care in america and examples. what's great companies, the there are great schemes where parents like thank goodness, this is helpful to me. you know it, it's hard to think of any because in reality what we've seen is an entire system collapse in a matter of a few months. and you know, like nicole said, child care has been a problem for

a really long time of what did we have this year that was different because low income families have been dealing with this for a very long time. the difference this year was everyone was at home. everyone was dealing with it across the socioeconomic spectrum. and so now you have a moment where child care is elevated into the national consciousness because every family has to deal with it in some way. when you have one in 5 child care providers have lost their jobs this year, you have thousands of centers that have closed and this is an industry that is already really struggling. it's razor thin margins, right? the workers make around minimum wage of not less. if not a little bit more and that you have regulations insurance, overhead costs, it makes it very difficult to run this business. and so when something like this happens, it completely collapses. and so issues of how are we going to regulate this? the industry about insurance, about access in child care deserts of the country that barely have any supply. these are really, really big problems. that really there's no time like right now to address them.

j w says i can't help but wonder if the pandemic know schools and day can an incredibly weak economy amaze any families rethink having children. that is a pretty depressing thought right there, diane. i know that you've got growing up kate's. if you had younger kids looking quite so, so together right now about a way to apply that as well. that if this it happened 20 years ago to me when my kids were little, i would have had to end my career at that point. i mean, and i think that in terms of you know, silver linings. i can find, find one here right now is i think that economists are starting to pay more attention to the essential function of the caregiving part of our economy. which,

you know, has never been properly valued by economists in terms of contributing to g.d.p. . you know, a lot of caregiving work is either unpaid or vastly underpaid. and so i think the fact that caregiving is the foundation of our people, which means that it's the foundation of our economy. i think we're starting to realize that if we don't have a good character having infrastructure, the whole economy above it is going to crumble. and so i think that is good news in terms of opening economists eye to the reliance of our entire market based economy on women and caregiving. i want, i think that's a great point because i spoke to an economist this year who just said, this is an issue of diversity and representation. we would not be in the situation that we are in right now. if there were more women economists, if there were more women of color in that industry, in that field, if there were more women in positions of power,

right childcare would not be on the backburner. if that had happened then. so here we are now sort of reaping the unfortunate result of that. i also spoke to economists quite recently. principal column is the us census bureau a little bit earlier, and this is what she shared with the stream. it's almost like these figures are a warning. now what are we getting? have a listen to misty? it is generally just too much to bear for mothers to maintain increased informal labor work in the household and still work outside of the home. the longer this goes on, the more difficult it will be for these mothers to really get a can of labor force which have the potential to exacerbate general inequality in the workforce. in the long run. we've been given a very clear sign about what may happen with women in the workforce. so in the united states,

guess i want to share this thought with you. this is from sarah sarah is on the cheap hi sarah, thanks for being part of our conversation. she says this pandemic only highlights gaps in gender inequality. i myself feel like i'm at a disadvantage as a young woman than men at my workplace and more. and i'm very worried that i will be laid off. nichol advice for sarah. what would it be? there are so somebody, the issues that you raise are really important ones, issues around pay equity and also economic preparer to your job and security. and that's an issue that many women in the workforce, myself included, are struggling with you know, our whole careers, but even more so in this moment. so the only i don't know to device is the right word. but i think having the conversations and speaking out, and also engaging on the front lines with many of us here,

i'm who are doing this work around pay equity and creating more equitable workplaces for women. my age, my big thought right now in this moment is that it really provides us an opportunity to think about a gender agricole recovery, an economy that works for women. women are 50 percent of the workforce and we have not been treated, you know, assets and employers and workplaces have not accommodated women in their needs in the workplace. and i think it's about time that we start having those conversations about what women really need to be successful and ants in their careers. and we just haven't had them say and diane last thought on this topic, do you feel that now that we know the numbers that the federal government will help women law? i think the federal government is going to focus

a little bit more on the care infrastructure as nicole referred to. and the importance of investing adequately in that people infrastructure. if we really want to see our economy not just recover, but thrive in the future, is there's going to have to be some change about and some recognition of the value of the caregiving part of our economy. diane, into belly and nicole really thank you so much for being part of this conversation . we appreciate you and colby back on to instagram live acts 20 that day away wednesday. yes. and as stake and you'll be added to a little bit more why i'm plugging feature a stream of vents. look out for this 1 october the 30th at $2100.00 g.m.t. g.m.t. . we will have a one hour episode. we will look at some of the big issues facing the u.s.

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