Sociologist Jessica Calarco has been studying women struggling to balance work and parenting during the Covid-19 pandemic – and how workplaces can help. She says societal pressures, ideas about motherhood, and systemic failures are causing working mothers to suffer greater anxiety and depression than before the pandemic.

The Anxious Achiever

Morra Aarons-Mele

Anxiety, Depression, and Working Moms in a Pandemic

NOV 30, 202038 MIN
The Anxious Achiever

Anxiety, Depression, and Working Moms in a Pandemic

NOV 30, 202038 MIN

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Sociologist Jessica Calarco has been studying women struggling to balance work and parenting during the Covid-19 pandemic – and how workplaces can help. She says societal pressures, ideas about motherhood, and systemic failures are causing working mothers to suffer greater anxiety and depression than before the pandemic.