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Recent Examples of caregiving
The reality is that caregiving will frequently put you in no-win situations where no easy answer exists.
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Kat McGowan, NPR, 18 Oct. 2025
Many of these women are funneled into caregiving, hospitality, food service, and domestic work—sectors that are undervalued, underpaid, and highly exposed to volatility.
—Katica Roy, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
There’s no question that caregiving is hard work.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 13 Oct. 2025
As The Atlantic has previously reported, American parents are relying on grandparents—especially grandmothers—for dedicated caregiving in ways that their counterparts in previous generations didn’t.
—Marina Lopes, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2025
However, the burden of caregiving is not spread evenly across all women.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
In the case of the caregiving business case, allyship skills are highly correlated with caregiving skills.
—Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
As with all caregiving, the burden falls overwhelmingly on women.
—Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Kat McGowan, NPR, 18 Oct. 2025
Many of these women are funneled into caregiving, hospitality, food service, and domestic work—sectors that are undervalued, underpaid, and highly exposed to volatility.
—Katica Roy, Fortune, 15 Oct. 2025
There’s no question that caregiving is hard work.
—Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 13 Oct. 2025
As The Atlantic has previously reported, American parents are relying on grandparents—especially grandmothers—for dedicated caregiving in ways that their counterparts in previous generations didn’t.
—Marina Lopes, The Atlantic, 6 Oct. 2025
However, the burden of caregiving is not spread evenly across all women.
—Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Oct. 2025
In the case of the caregiving business case, allyship skills are highly correlated with caregiving skills.
—Julie Kratz, Forbes.com, 14 Sep. 2025
As with all caregiving, the burden falls overwhelmingly on women.
—Madeline Mitchell, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for caregiving
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Megan Angelo is the author of Followers and has written about television, film, women, and pop culture, and motherhood for publications including The New York Times, Elle, The Wall Street Journal, Marie Claire, Vogue, Slate, and Romper.—
Megan Angelo,
Glamour,
20 Oct. 2025
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Vanessa Kirby is joining Sue Storm in motherhood.—
Shania Russell,
Entertainment Weekly,
20 Oct. 2025
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The couple has been beset by illness—Kendall had his own recent brush with mortality—and the story that Lockwood’s book, and my Profile, tells deals with sickness and recovery, but also with caretaking, companionship, and, above all, love.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
26 Aug. 2025
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For working mothers who already face the physical toll of interrupted sleep, household labor and caretaking, standing desks can exacerbate, rather than ease, daily strain.—
Michelle Stansbury,
Forbes.com,
25 Aug. 2025
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Or the crib with a dip alongside its edge, which Roe incorporated based on memories of leaning over the side of the crib in the early days of mothering.—
Julia Harrison,
Architectural Digest,
21 Oct. 2025
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That’s not a typical mothering experience.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
9 Oct. 2025
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In 1918, Soviet women were given the right to higher education, equal pay, no-fault civil divorce, child support (including for children born out of wedlock), paid maternity leave, and access to free maternity hospitals.—
Julia Ioffe,
New Yorker,
19 Oct. 2025
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The maternity concierge serves as a liaison, guiding expectant parents through the multifaceted stages of pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period, alleviating anxiety and stress while assisting families in navigating the journey.—
MemorialCare Saddleback Medical Center,
Oc Register,
16 Oct. 2025
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“Caregiving.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/caregiving. Accessed 27 Oct. 2025.
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