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Image zoom Credit: Getty Images. You have to be comfortable with the story you are telling, in your resume and the rest of your application, says Curtis. If you are true to yourself and confident in your journey, then that will come across as exceptional.
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When returning to work after staying at home with a baby, says Storey, the key is to communicate and be honest on your resume about the decision you made to raise your kiddos. It is important that your resume is not trying to cover it up. It is admirable and hard to make the decision to put your career on hold to raise your children.
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Vice-President Kamala Harris recently said roughly 2.5 million women who have left the workforce since the beginning of the pandemic constituted a “national emergency.” That number, according to Labor Department data, compares with 1.8 million men who have left the workforce.
For many women, the demands of child care, distance learning, layoffs and furloughs has forced them out of the labor market.
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Over the last year, the pandemic has not only shed light on all the cracks in society but deepened them. Thanks to systemic factors like a lack of affordable, accessible child care and women continuing to carry the mental load for their families, they ve been forced out of the workforce en masse. The total number of women who have left the labor force since February 2020 is more than 2.3 million, putting the women s labor force participate rate at 57 percent, which is the lowest it has been in 32 years, according to a January 2021 analysis from the National Women s Law Center. The perils of mothering in a pandemic is, in some way, affecting nearly every family, and this crisis is especially harming moms of color due to structural racism, notes Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, executive director and CEO, MomsRising.
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