The pressures of parenting in a pandemic are pushing hundreds of thousands of women around the country out of work or into burnout.

Without additional public funding, 40% of the child care centers in the U.S. say they’ll be forced to permanently shutter because of the financial pressures of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey released Monday by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

In addition to being told how women should dress and speak, attendees were also told that women’s brains absorb information like pancakes soak up syrup so it’s hard for them to focus. Men’s brains are more like waffles. They’re better able to focus because the information collects in each little waffle square.

When Lilly clicked to agree to the app’s terms and conditions, she also agreed to take any complaints about the company to arbitration, a secret court where she would have no right to a jury trial and where the deck is often stacked against victims of sexual assault and harassment.

Alabama is one of only two states with no equal pay laws protecting women from discrimination and it has the fourth largest pay gap in the U.S., according to the National Partnership for Women & Families.

“It’s been really hard. Donors who jump in early want a safe bet and see women as risky bets,” another Democratic organizer told HuffPost, declining to be named because of her relationships with some of the candidates.

Her story shows the limits of the Me Too era. Simply firing or forcing out a sexual harasser often does little to change a company’s culture, as she learned. It’s also a reminder that, for women, privilege can’t always confer protection from sexual discrimination and harassment.

“I think a lot of people see you as pretty likable, a nice person, given the person who we have in the White House, who I think most people would kind of agree, Republicans and Democrats, he’s not the most likable guy in the world,” the reporter said. “How much of a selling point” is that likability, he asked, comparing her to the presumably equally likable Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) ― who may also throw her hat in the ring. “Maybe the country wants someone like that now,” he said.

There are still a few contests that haven’t been decided, but as of this writing, a record 123 women will be heading to Congress for the next term. Only 19 of them are Republicans ― down from 23. In other words, while the Democratic Party in Congress edges closer to something like gender parity ― nearly 40 percent of the House Democratic caucus will be female ― the GOP is bleeding female politicians. What this means going forward is that women’s electoral successes are linked to the vagaries of the political environment.

Just 13 percent of Americans say they’ve heard a lot about the Moonves allegations, according to a survey conducted by HuffPost and YouGov last week. By comparison, 45 percent of Americans had heard a lot about studio mogul Harvey Weinstein, in an October 2017 survey conducted after The New York Times published a bombshell report about his sexual misconduct.