#working-mothers

#working-mothers

Born out of a realization that men are being promoted even as women are professionally regressing, the damning report highlights how it is mothers who are most likely to have lost or left their job since the onset of the pandemic. The project also found that those women who remain employed are more likely to work from home and shoulder a heavier burden of day-to-day tasks than their male colleagues.

"There is no parental leave [for Congress members]. They still do things the way they did almost 250 years ago. The challenge was not about whether I should be working-because I understand how essential this is to represent my constituents-but it was being there in person that was so limiting. I knew I was going to do everything I could to be here for a critical vote where I could make a difference.