As US aims to bring back manufacturing, supporting women is key

Rising costs of childcare have been among several factors that have led to a steep fall in women’s participation at work [File: Carlos Osorio/AP Photo] Alicia Black’s four-year-old daughter, Rain, chats with her, trying to speak over the phone conversation her mother is also having. Black keeps up the two conversations while driving through rush hour traffic after working a shift at a factory in Milwaukee, where she makes lead acid batteries for cars and trucks and marine batteries for submarines.

Black sends her daughter to childcare three days a week because it is all she can afford. It has […]

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