By Andi Simon, Ph.D. What does it say about our culture when moms and their children are facing unbearable pain and trauma during the pandemic? This crisis has amplified the way women in the U.S. are undervalued, or not valued at all. While it is widely known that America lags far behind all other […]
COVID-19 has played havoc with many people’s careers, but it may have been especially detrimental to women. Research shows that working mothers are dropping out of the workforce much faster than working fathers, at least in part because many schools switched to remote learning and at least one adult needed to be in the home with […]
By Andi Simon, Ph.D. How many times have you heard something said about women that was just not “true?” The myths seem to be everywhere, even as women penetrate areas that seemed out of bounds in the past. What do we hear? Women aren’t great leaders. They aren’t decisive or they are too collaborative or […]
The pandemic-induced recession forced many women to drop out of the workforce, with research showing they were much more likely than men to give up jobs so they could take care of children when schools went online. The consequences of these decisions may go beyond each individual, though. “They could have large repercussions for the economy, the […]
