Motherhood special report: Pandemic exposes how Irish women are still left holding the baby

The pandemic put parenting, and mothering in particular, front and centre, with research showing that women bore the brunt of the restrictions. But even before Covid, mothers were struggling with the lion's share of domestic chores and care work in addition to paid employment, writes Joyce Fegan

In January 2020, Oxfam found that women in Ireland did 38m hours of unpaid care work every single week, domestic chores and care work that enabled others to go out into paid employment.