Moms worked incredibly hard over the past year. From child care to home-schooling to changing work requirements to trying to keep everyone healthy (including my family s mental health), 2020 was a year of nonstop challenges. Moms, in particular, were the ones stepping back from their jobs to care for or home-school kids.
Because the majority of the child-care responsibilities still fall to women, and because they are generally paid less, many have found it’s simply too much to juggle and have made the difficult choice to leave their job. Others have been forced out due to the pandemic. We are currently experiencing an alarming decline of women in the workplace. In fact, more than 850,000 women left the workforce in September of this year alone.