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More and more women are bearing the weight of the “Covid-load”, juggling increasing work pressures with childcare and home duties, writes Nikki Walsh. She finds out what sort of conversations we need to be having with our bosses, our partners and, most importantly, ourselves.
Mother, teacher, employee, cleaner, home help… These are just some of the roles women are expected to fulfil in our lifetime. But since the pandemic, most of us are fulfilling all of them, all of the time. “The pandemic has crystallised the issues facing women,” says Frances Fitzgerald, former Tánaiste and MEP. “Care is a huge issue. How do we place value on such work, how do we make it visible?”