But due to COVID-19 cases, people are still working from home, and some of those remote workers might still be struggling to find the right work-life balance.
As Kamala Harris prepared to take the oath of office Wednesday to become the nationâs first female vice president, Marie Killian imagined what the milestone moment would mean for her five granddaughters.
âMy God, for them to see this, I never could imagine seeing such a thing in my lifetime,â said Killian, chairwoman of Progressive Women of NEPA, a group working to recruit and elect progressive female candidates to local and state offices in Northeast Pennsylvania. âIâm so moved. . This is just the most wonderful day.â
Harrisâ swearing in marked a number of firsts in the nationâs almost 245-year history, as sheâs the first woman, first Black person and first person of Indian descent to ascend to the vice presidency. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the first Latina to serve on the highest court in the land, administered the vice presidential oath to Harris shortly before 11:45 a.m.