There also continue to be gendered disparities in household management, in which the majority of the burden in heterosexual relationships falls on women—a fact that has been starkly highlighted during the pandemic.25 The reality is that sex, marriage, domesticity, birth, and childrearing are often gendered forms of productivity and reproductive labor under cisheteropatriarchy and capitalism. The United States also has no paid parental leave for new parents, the only one of the world’s wealthiest nations to offer no national paid leave for its citizens.
