Labor/Employment,
Covid Columns
Jun. 8, 2022
The abandonment of working women before, during and after COVID
The fact that it was largely women who stepped up to pick up the slack should surprise no one. For years, women have taken on the extra burdens associated with keeping their families functioning – even as they have balanced their own professional obligations.
The pandemic changed countless aspects of the American workplace: It increased our ability and willingness to work remotely; shifted our understanding regarding which jobs are “essential” to society and forced us to become creative in how we tackled the many obstacles that COVID presented. The pandemic also drastically altered the demographic makeup of the workforce in ways that have had and will continue to have a detrimental impact on working women.
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