{"id":3110,"date":"2021-03-10T13:55:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-10T18:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2023-12-12T15:25:17","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T20:25:17","slug":"part-2-a-year-without-sleep-the-unfortunate-truth-about-gender-equity-and-working-mothers-in-a-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/part-2-a-year-without-sleep-the-unfortunate-truth-about-gender-equity-and-working-mothers-in-a-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Part 2 &#8211; A Year Without Sleep: The Unfortunate Truth About Gender Equity and Working Mothers In A Pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><button id=\"listenButton1\" class=\"responsivevoice-button\" type=\"button\" value=\"Play\" title=\"ResponsiveVoice Tap to Start\/Stop Speech\"><span>&#128266; Listen to this article<\/span><\/button>\n        <script>\n            listenButton1.onclick = function(){\n                if(responsiveVoice.isPlaying()){\n                    responsiveVoice.cancel();\n                }else{\n                    responsiveVoice.speak(\"This article is the second in a 3-part series on motherhood in the pandemic. The first part is available here.\u00a0 In March 2020, one year ago this week, the world changed for me and for many, many mothers, all around the world. In America, in the midst of Women\u2019s History Month, as our country became the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, working mothers had to suddenly shift their professional responsibilities in order to accommodate their children\u2019s minute-by-minute needs as well.\u00a0 Some mothers lost their jobs or voluntarily left them behind, losing not only their incomes but, in too many cases, their health insurance plans as well. Still others, who did have the privilege of working from home, were faced with shouldering the bulk of unpaid domestic labor plus new night shifts to accommodate their lack of availability for daytime work, as they stayed home to manage virtual school and fill critical childcare gaps.\u00a0 While this should come as no surprise -- women have faced countless obstacles and hardships for centuries -- the pandemic has exacerbated existing disparities and challenges that exist for mothers in particular.\u00a0 In 2020, we stepped back into the 80s . . .\u00a0 Although pre-pandemic, women comprised the majority of the American workforce, by August 2020 their participation rate had plummeted to its lowest since the 1980s. By September, an astounding 865,000 women had dropped out of the workforce compared to 216,000 men: the obvious result of childcare burdens. The COVID-19 pandemic has only magnified traditional gender role expectations and unconscious bias that have played a role in the mass exodus of mothers from the labor force over the past few years. Not only have women\u2019s jobs and careers suffered more greatly than their male counterparts during the pandemic and its accompanying economic crisis, but the lost work previously held by many women has threatened progress toward gender equity and middle-income gains that have grown increasingly dependent on women.\u00a0 While many factors have played a role in this COVID departure from the workforce, caregiving responsibilities continue to top the list, followed by other factors such as lack of affordable childcare, pay gaps between mothers and fathers, the motherhood penalty, and a nonexistent national paid leave policy for working parents. According to UN Women, the ripple effect of having fewer women in the workforce will hinder women\u2019s independence and economic progress for decades, while also negatively impacting psychological and physical wellbeing, reversing any pre-pandemic trends toward gender equality. With mothers of small children three times more likely than fathers to have lost their jobs during the pandemic, women overall have left their workforce at a rate four times higher than men. For Black women and for women of color, that rate is even higher. In fact, America lost 16% of the jobs previously held by single mothers of young children, compared with only 6% those held by single fathers. With a limited network to fill childcare gaps, many of these former co-breadwinner and primary breadwinner moms left their jobs because they had no choice, inadvertently leading many of these once-working mothers to survive off unemployment benefits and rely on food pantries to feed their children.\u00a0 There is no work-life balance under this impossible workload... While trying to manage their professional responsibilities during the pandemic, many mothers are also juggling healthcare appointments, meal plans and meal prep, house repairs, grocery lists, virtual school support, and caregiving for older family members as well -- all of which can take a major toll on physical and mental health.\u00a0 The pandemic has wreaked havoc on Millennial mothers, in particular. Currently the nation\u2019s largest generation in the labor force, Millennial mothers, according the Center for American Progress, were nearly three times more likely than Millennial fathers to report being unable to work in order to care for their children as a result of school and childcare closures.\u00a0 And, although Millennial men have demonstrated more progressive attitudes toward gender equality when it comes to paid work, their attitudes toward childcare responsibilities have hardly shifted, as the majority of Millennial men still hold strong to cultural norms centered on the notion that caregiving and house work are primarily the responsibility of women. These added responsibilities have had a negative impact on Millennial mothers\u2019 attachment to the workforce, and research across every industry shows that many Millennial mothers\u2019 inability to work will have significant long-term implications for women\u2019s lifetime earnings and will exacerbate the gender pay gap. The impact on specific demographics... Women of color, who are less likely to have jobs that can be done remotely and more likely to have jobs in healthcare, service, hospitality, or early education (jobs which cannot often be worked from home), have likely been the most severely affected. With a disproportionate number of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous women being essential, frontline workers, they know all too well the perpetual cycle of racism and misogyny that permeates our nation\u2019s domestic economy. While many of these women struggle to find safe, affordable childcare options, many of them must also grapple with the horrific reality that they are at greater risk of contracting and dying from,COVID-19, since non-Hispanic Blacks, Latinos, and Indigenous Americans have the highest rates of coronavirus mortality, according to the CDC. Teacher-mothers, specifically, have been caught in the crossfire of criticism regarding the safe reopening of schools and ever-changing CDC guidelines. Will teachers be safe from contracting the virus if they\u2019re forced to teach in-person? How will they manage to enforce mask mandates or create collaborative learning environments with their students spread at least six feet apart? And, if so many parents -- and the CDC -- now want schools to return to in-person learning, shouldn\u2019t teachers be considered frontline workers, eligible for the vaccine alongside healthcare professionals?\u00a0 Teacher-mothers, like so many American women, have been plagued by the dual burden of balancing their professional duties as teachers -- communicating with students and their parents throughout the day, revising lesson plans to work in an online format, grading assignments, conducting assessments, and paying attention to what each child needs for success -- with their personal duties as mothers and teachers to their own children at home. Teacher-mothers are often seen as the better-trained parent to provide instruction and report still having to perform more unpaid domestic work at home as well.\u00a0 Single mothers, who make up 80.4% of America\u2019s 13.6 million single-parent households -- raising 22.4 million children across the country -- have paid a tremendous price as well. In order to work or go to school, single parents often rely on full-time childcare. Yet, many single mothers have been furloughed from their jobs and have struggled to provide for their children on meager state unemployment benefits, which are not designed to cover the cost of sustaining a single-parent household. Often isolated and over-burdened, many single mothers found themselves forgoing sleep and months of self-care in a desperate attempt to keep their households up and running.\u00a0 Imagine if you happen to live at the intersection of any of these identities: a single, Black, working teacher-mother, for instance. The load must feel nearly unbearable.\u00a0 The pandemic is making unpaid work more visible... In sum, despite trends toward gender equality, the vast majority of housework, childcare, and elder care responsibilities -- unpaid work that does not factor into a person\u2019s professional job responsibilities -- is still falling on women. Even in households where partners equally contribute to overall household labor, research shows that mothers are engaged in far more task management (e.g., coordinating child care pickup\/drop off, doctor appointments, home repairs, etc.), mental labor planning (e.g., grocery lists, kids\u2019 birthday logistics), and crisis management than their partners.\u00a0 By societal default, women have performed more unpaid work for centuries and have covered the cost of social care that supports economies, helps sustain families, and fills the social service gap. This unpaid domestic work, according to Forbes, is worth nearly $10 trillion to the annual global economy, yet it remains undervalued and mostly invisible simply because there is no pay involved.\u00a0 While the pandemic has certainly increased the share of mothers\u2019 unpaid labor, even before it women were still assuming roughly 75% of the 16 billion hours of unpaid work done every day around the world. The time that women spend performing this invisible labor significantly limits their time to engage in paid labor or to work longer hours, often stifling their career development or burdening them with the ills of financial insecurity.\u00a0\u00a0 In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the existing gender gap has only widened, at least doubling since 2020 began, and shedding light on the ways in which unpaid domestic work has been the world\u2019s social safety net, making it possible for some to earn an income and advance through the ranks of professional success, while stifling the growth and employment opportunities of others -- mostly women -- who find themselves shouldering almost all the tasks and responsibilities of unpaid domestic labor.\u00a0 This article is the second piece in a 3-part series on motherhood in the pandemic. The first part is available here. \u201cA Year Without Sleep\u201d was written by TDM consultant and data scientist Oriana Leach. To learn more about what your business can do to celebrate Women\u2019s History Month and support working mothers within your organization, download our free Women\u2019s History Month Programming Guide.\u00a0\", \"US English Male\");\n                }\n            };\n        <\/script>\n     <\/br><br \/>\n<strong><i>This article is the second in a 3-part series on motherhood in the pandemic. The first part is available <a href=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/part-1-a-year-without-sleep-the-unfortunate-truth-about-gender-equity-and-working-mothers-in-a-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In March 2020, one year ago this week, the world changed for me and for many, many mothers, all around the world. In America, in the midst of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/womens-history-month-programming-guide\/?utm_source=no-sleep-blog&amp;utm_medium=online-magazine&amp;utm_campaign=whm-guide&amp;utm_content=part-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women\u2019s History Month<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as our country became the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak, working mothers had to suddenly shift their professional responsibilities in order to accommodate their children\u2019s minute-by-minute needs as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some mothers lost their jobs or voluntarily left them behind, losing not only their incomes but, in too many cases, their health insurance plans as well. Still others, who <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">did<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have the privilege of working from home, were faced with shouldering the bulk of unpaid domestic labor plus new night shifts to accommodate their lack of availability for daytime work, as they stayed home to manage virtual school and fill critical childcare gaps.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While this should come as no surprise &#8212; women have faced countless obstacles and hardships for centuries &#8212; the pandemic has exacerbated existing disparities and challenges that exist for mothers in particular.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/library\/%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-8876 size-large lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-A-1024x341.png\" alt=\"TDM Library: your one-stop-shop for update, expert DEI Resources. Explore the platform with a free trial. Click here to learn more.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-A-1024x341.png 1024w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-A-600x200.png 600w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-A-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-A-768x256.png 768w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/NEW-TDM-Library-Display-Ad_Large-A.png 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/341;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>In 2020, we stepped back into the 80s . . .\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although pre-pandemic, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.e-ir.info\/2020\/12\/14\/opinion-covid-19s-war-on-feminism-in-the-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">women comprised the majority<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the American workforce, by August 2020 their participation rate had plummeted to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/pandemic-workforce-women-mckinsey-coronavirus-a5ceed50-8691-4589-8534-b2bde9f7173d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">its lowest since the 1980s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. By September, an astounding <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/women\/reports\/2020\/10\/30\/492582\/covid-19-sent-womens-workforce-progress-backward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">865,000 women had dropped out of the workforce<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> compared to 216,000 men: the obvious result of childcare burdens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The COVID-19 pandemic has only magnified traditional gender role expectations and unconscious bias that have played a role in the mass exodus of mothers from the labor force over the past few years. Not only have women\u2019s jobs and careers suffered more greatly than their male counterparts during the pandemic and its accompanying economic crisis, but the lost work previously held by many women has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/blogs\/stateline\/2020\/09\/28\/mothers-are-3-times-more-likely-than-fathers-to-have-lost-jobs-in-pandemic#:~:text=A%20July%20study%20by%20Washington,than%20fathers%20in%20the%20pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">threatened progress toward gender equity<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and middle-income gains that have grown increasingly dependent on women.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While many factors have played a role in this COVID departure from the workforce, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/early-childhood\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/489178\/covid-19-pandemic-forcing-millennial-mothers-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">caregiving responsibilities continue to top the list<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, followed by other factors such as lack of affordable childcare, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shrm.org\/resourcesandtools\/hr-topics\/compensation\/pages\/wage-gap-is-wider-for-working-mothers.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pay gaps between mothers and fathers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/03\/25\/the-motherhood-penalty-costs-women-16000-a-year-in-lost-wages.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">motherhood penalty,<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and a nonexistent national paid leave policy for working parents. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-55016842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">UN Women<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the ripple effect of having fewer women in the workforce will hinder women\u2019s independence and economic progress for decades, while also negatively impacting psychological and physical wellbeing, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/women\/reports\/2020\/10\/30\/492582\/covid-19-sent-womens-workforce-progress-backward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reversing any pre-pandemic trends toward gender equality<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With mothers of small children <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/blogs\/stateline\/2020\/09\/28\/mothers-are-3-times-more-likely-than-fathers-to-have-lost-jobs-in-pandemic#:~:text=A%20July%20study%20by%20Washington,than%20fathers%20in%20the%20pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">three times more likely than fathers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to have lost their jobs during the pandemic, women overall have left their workforce at a rate <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/hollycorbett\/2021\/01\/29\/why-mothers-should-be-considered-essential-workers-and-get-paid\/?sh=52393a613a0d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">four times higher than men<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. For Black women and for women of color, that rate is even higher. In fact, America lost <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pewtrusts.org\/en\/research-and-analysis\/blogs\/stateline\/2020\/09\/28\/mothers-are-3-times-more-likely-than-fathers-to-have-lost-jobs-in-pandemic#:~:text=A%20July%20study%20by%20Washington,than%20fathers%20in%20the%20pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">16% of the jobs previously held by single mothers<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of young children, compared with only 6% those held by single fathers. With a limited network to fill childcare gaps, many of these former co-breadwinner and primary breadwinner moms <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2020\/11\/13\/health\/child-care-covid-women-workforce-wellness\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">left their jobs because they had no choice<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, inadvertently leading many of these once-working mothers to survive off unemployment benefits and rely on food pantries to feed their children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>There is no work-life balance under this impossible workload&#8230;<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While trying to manage their professional responsibilities during the pandemic, many mothers are also juggling healthcare appointments, meal plans and meal prep, house repairs, grocery lists, virtual school support, and caregiving for older family members as well &#8212; all of which can take a major toll on physical and mental health.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pandemic has wreaked havoc on Millennial mothers, in particular. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/early-childhood\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/489178\/covid-19-pandemic-forcing-millennial-mothers-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Currently the nation\u2019s largest generation in the labor force<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Millennial mothers, according the Center for American Progress, were <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/early-childhood\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/489178\/covid-19-pandemic-forcing-millennial-mothers-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nearly three times more likely than Millennial fathers to report being unable to work<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in order to care for their children as a result of school and childcare closures.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, although Millennial men have demonstrated more progressive attitudes toward gender equality when it comes to paid work, their attitudes toward childcare responsibilities have hardly shifted, as the majority of Millennial men still hold strong to cultural norms centered on the notion that caregiving and house work are primarily the responsibility of women. These added responsibilities have had a negative impact on Millennial mothers\u2019 attachment to the workforce, and research across every industry shows that many Millennial mothers\u2019 inability to work will have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/early-childhood\/news\/2020\/08\/12\/489178\/covid-19-pandemic-forcing-millennial-mothers-workforce\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">significant long-term implications for women\u2019s lifetime earnings<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and will exacerbate the gender pay gap.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The impact on specific demographics&#8230;<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women of color, who are <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stlouisfed.org\/on-the-economy\/2020\/december\/she-cession-persists-women-of-color\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">less likely<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to have jobs that can be done remotely and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/women\/reports\/2020\/04\/23\/483846\/frontlines-work-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more likely<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to have jobs in healthcare, service, hospitality, or early education (jobs which cannot often be worked from home), have likely been the most severely affected. With a disproportionate number of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous women being essential, frontline workers, they know all too well the perpetual cycle of racism and misogyny that permeates our nation\u2019s domestic economy. While many of these women struggle to find safe, affordable childcare options, many of them must also grapple with the horrific reality that they are at greater risk of contracting and dying from,COVID-19, since non-Hispanic Blacks, Latinos, and Indigenous Americans have the highest rates of coronavirus mortality, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/community\/health-equity\/racial-ethnic-disparities\/disparities-deaths.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the CDC<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teacher-mothers, specifically, have been caught in the crossfire of criticism regarding the safe reopening of schools and ever-changing CDC guidelines. Will teachers be <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsoctv.com\/news\/local\/elementary-school-student-contracts-covid-19-days-after-teacher-dies-virus\/5MXNOOLMPJH4XDER2VI5TQTMWA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">safe from contracting the virus<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> if they\u2019re forced to teach in-person? How will they manage to enforce mask mandates or create collaborative learning environments with their students spread at least six feet apart? And, if so many parents &#8212; and the CDC &#8212; now want <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/community\/health-equity\/racial-ethnic-disparities\/disparities-deaths.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">schools to return to in-person learning<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, shouldn\u2019t teachers be considered frontline workers, eligible for the vaccine alongside healthcare professionals?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teacher-mothers, like so many American women, have been plagued by the dual burden of balancing their professional duties as teachers &#8212; communicating with students and their parents throughout the day, revising lesson plans to work in an online format, grading assignments, conducting assessments, and paying attention to what each child needs for success &#8212; with their personal duties as mothers and teachers to their own children at home. Teacher-mothers are often seen as the better-trained parent to provide instruction and report still having to perform <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/remote-learning-stress-teacher-moms-2469902\/#:~:text=The%20transition%20to%20remote%20learning,to%20a%20small%20new%20study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">more unpaid domestic work<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at home as well.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Single mothers, who make up 80.4% of America\u2019s 13.6 million <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/10\/26\/925898367\/incredibly-scary-single-moms-fear-falling-through-holes-in-pandemic-safety-net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">single-parent households<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> &#8212; raising 22.4 million children across the country &#8212; have paid a tremendous price as well. In order to work or go to school, single parents often rely on full-time childcare. Yet, many single mothers have been furloughed from their jobs and have <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2020\/10\/26\/925898367\/incredibly-scary-single-moms-fear-falling-through-holes-in-pandemic-safety-net\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">struggled to provide for their children<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on meager state unemployment benefits, which are not designed to cover the cost of sustaining a single-parent household. Often isolated and over-burdened, many single mothers found themselves <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.popsugar.com\/family\/how-covid-19-made-it-harder-to-be-single-mom-47850548\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">forgoing sleep and months of self-care<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in a desperate attempt to keep their households up and running.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Imagine if you happen to live at the intersection of any of these identities: a single, Black, working teacher-mother, for instance. The load must feel nearly unbearable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>The pandemic is making unpaid work more visible&#8230;<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In sum, despite trends toward gender equality, the vast majority of housework, childcare, and elder care responsibilities &#8212; <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weforum.org\/agenda\/2020\/12\/covid-women-workload-domestic-caring\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">unpaid work<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that does not factor into a person\u2019s professional job responsibilities &#8212; is still falling on women. Even in households where partners equally contribute to overall household labor, research shows that <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.americanprogress.org\/issues\/women\/reports\/2018\/05\/18\/450972\/unequal-division-labor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mothers are engaged in far more task management<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (e.g., coordinating child care pickup\/drop off, doctor appointments, home repairs, etc.), <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.workingmother.com\/this-comic-perfectly-explains-mental-load-working-mothers-bear#page-14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">mental labor planning<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (e.g., grocery lists, kids\u2019 birthday logistics), and crisis management than their partners.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By societal default, women have performed more unpaid work for centuries and have covered the cost of social care that supports economies, helps sustain families, and fills the social service gap. This unpaid domestic work, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/hollycorbett\/2021\/01\/29\/why-mothers-should-be-considered-essential-workers-and-get-paid\/?sh=52393a613a0d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Forbes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, is worth nearly $10 trillion to the annual global economy, yet it remains undervalued and mostly invisible simply because there is no pay involved.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While the pandemic has certainly increased the share of mothers\u2019 unpaid labor, even before it <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-55016842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">women were still assuming roughly 75% of the 16 billion hours of unpaid work<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> done every day around the world. The time that women spend performing this <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodmorningamerica.com\/wellness\/story\/invisible-labor-taking-toll-mothers-60519555\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">invisible labor<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> significantly limits their time to engage in paid labor or to work longer hours, often <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/this-is-how-much-more-unpaid-work-women-do-than-men-2017-03-07\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">stifling their career development <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">or burdening them with the ills of financial insecurity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the existing gender gap has only widened, at least doubling since 2020 began, and shedding light on the ways in which <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-55016842\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">unpaid domestic work has been the world\u2019s social safety net<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, making it possible for some to earn an income and advance through the ranks of professional success, while stifling the growth and employment opportunities of others &#8212; mostly women &#8212; who find themselves shouldering almost all the tasks and responsibilities of unpaid domestic labor.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/library\/%20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8041 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-A-1024x85.png\" alt=\"Display ad for TDM Library. 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Start my free trial&quot;\" width=\"1024\" height=\"85\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-A-1024x85.png 1024w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-A-600x50.png 600w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-A-300x25.png 300w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-A-768x64.png 768w, https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/TDM-Library-Footer-Ad-A.png 1200w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/85;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This article is the second piece in a 3-part series on motherhood in the pandemic. The first part is available <a href=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/part-1-a-year-without-sleep-the-unfortunate-truth-about-gender-equity-and-working-mothers-in-a-pandemic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. \u201cA Year Without Sleep\u201d was written by TDM consultant and data scientist <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/team\/oriana-leach-ph-d\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Oriana Leach<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. To learn more about what your business can do to celebrate Women\u2019s History Month and support working mothers within your organization, download our free <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/thediversitymovement.com\/womens-history-month-programming-guide\/?utm_source=no-sleep-blog&amp;utm_medium=online-magazine&amp;utm_campaign=whm-guide&amp;utm_content=part-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women\u2019s History Month Programming Guide<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is the second in a 3-part series on motherhood in the pandemic. 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