How Care for Elders, Not Children, Denies Women a Paycheck

FILE -- Aleks Zeygerman puts his hand on his 87 year-old mother Nelli Leventon's arm, in New York June 3, 2013. The focus on child care may conceal a bigger barrier to female participation in the labor force: tending to the growing ranks of aging family members. (Michael Nagle/The New York Times)