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‘I feel like a 1950s housewife’: how lockdown has exposed the gender divide

   It’s still expected that women will make their jobs fit around
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   both work. “I’m a feminist and believe in choice,” she says. “But
   because of the pandemic, my choices have been taken away. I feel like a
   1950s housewife.”

   She is not alone. During the lockdown, mothers in the UK are typically