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caretaking

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Recent Examples of caretaking Many of the experts surveyed noted that, along with healthcare and economic headwinds, there is an undue caretaking burden placed on women, as well as insufficient services and protections for women of color and LGBTQIA+ women. — Anne Ewbank, Sacbee.com, 22 Sep. 2026 New York State is making roughly 900 ElliQ devices available to help older people in need of caretaking. — Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Moreover, technologies that keep us continually connected have given rise to a relentless and transcendent type of caretaking. — Marianne Cooper, Time, 5 Aug. 2026 This preemptive caretaking also prevents people from growing out of egocentric thinking. — Kristen Rogers, CNN Money, 16 July 2026 But the new season, which benefits tremendously from having shaken off the source material, reframes such caretaking as a literal labor of love. — Inkoo Kang, New Yorker, 15 June 2026 This kind of mutual caretaking, physical as well as emotional, prods larger conversations about the state of the world — particularly, Marie-Lou’s nursing home facing a perpetual funding crisis. — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 14 May 2026 Low pay, heavy workloads, and lack of clear worker protections and advancement opportunities have been common across the industry, but the pandemic really accelerated things, as issues like cost of living and accommodations for disability and caretaking were exacerbated. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 6 May 2026 Our institutions now reward leaders who excel at emotional caretaking over those who can actually produce order. — Jonathan Alpert Outkick, FOXNews.com, 25 Apr. 2026

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Knowing the exceptions are happening should be the first step toward addressing those exceptions in a way that supports caregiving staff and promotes quality service.

— Colin Conner II, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Housing, health care, education, caregiving, and everyday costs have outpaced wage growth for decades, leaving households with less room to save.

— Steven John, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2026

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His reverence for her motherhood — which the film avoids asking her about, substituting discussion with endless visuals of her breastfeeding and swinging her children through the waves — echoes the themes of season one.

— Kathryn VanArendonk, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2026
Ahead of her anticipated return to Broadway in the 1980s Cold War musical Chess, the actor opens up about recalibrating her relationship to ambition, motherhood, the rigor behind her return, and more.

— Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 21 Oct. 2026

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