The Pandemic Is Continuing To Affect Women's Ability to Work & Be A Mother
One of the great disappointments of the pandemic era is our collective inability—on a societal and structural level—to rise to the occasion, which has only complicated a problem that was already wildly complex. I saw a comment online the other day that the push to return kids to school is just about getting parents back to work, which I don’t think is entirely true, but is true enough to warrant a real discussion and some much-needed structural change, and your situation illustrates that; your kid can’t go to school right now, and that means you aren’t free to do your job—which, on a grand scale, is part of this ongoing calamity.