The COVID pandemic forced Americans into remote work, providing mothers with an opportunity for greater flexibility to manage work and household responsibilities. Post-pandemic, this flexibility has proven invaluable in helping to balance the inequities of housework and childcare. However, leaders are now pushing for a return to in-person work, which may disproportionately impact women's career advancement, as they had just begun to find new efficiencies during their time working from home.
There was a massive amount of efficiencies that happened in terms of managing lives during the pandemic, ironically, says Susan MacKenty Brady.
It's going to affect the advancement of women notably, because we got a taste for a bit of what we could do if we were given our own choices, MacKenty Brady says.
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