{"id":4079,"date":"2024-03-14T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cafe-mom-staging.local\/women-take-on-disproportionate-amount-of-work-eldercare\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T09:17:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T09:17:46","slug":"women-take-on-disproportionate-amount-of-work-eldercare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/lifestyle\/women-take-on-disproportionate-amount-of-work-eldercare","title":{"rendered":"New Report Shows Women Take on Disproportionate Amount of Work When It Comes to Elder Care"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to caring for young children, women often find themselves in the role of <a href=\"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/lifestyle\/tiktok-dad-goes-viral-announcing-he-doesnt-help-wife\">default parent<\/a> for many things. This can make the child-rearing years <a href=\"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/parenting\/221256-stay-at-home-mom-depression-struggles\">positively exhausting<\/a>. And just when a woman feels like she may have a bit of relief as her children get older, she may find herself reaching the Sandwich generation and <a href=\"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/lifestyle\/10-resources-to-use-when-caring-for-aging-parents\">once again caring for someone else<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A new report from Wells Fargo shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/wellsfargo.bluematrix.com\/links2\/html\/0b9c0833-906b-41e0-82f9-7406ae95cf72\">women play an essential role<\/a> in the growing need for elder care in the United States. Perhaps unsurprisingly, women will take on the brunt of caring for older adults in the coming years, often with no compensation for the physical and mental load that comes with caring for an aging parent.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More from CafeMom:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cafemom.com\/lifestyle\/helping-your-parents-hang-up-their-car-keys-as-they-age\">Helping Your Parents Hang Up Their Car Keys as They Age<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When it comes to caring for young children, women often find themselves in the role of default parent for many things. This can make the child-rearing years positively exhausting. And just when a woman feels like she may have a bit of relief as her children get older, she may find herself reaching the Sandwich 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