Pandemic Hits Working Women Especially Hard - WGBH
By Craig LeMoult
The pandemic has had an outsized impact on working women. Now advocates say workplaces and the state legislature should take steps to lessen the burden.
Leslie Forde said her research has shown the impact all too clearly. She's a member of the Black Economic Council of Massachusetts and founder of an online community called Mom's Hierarchy of Needs, who conducted a study of nearly 2,000 parents, mostly mothers.
"When asked in the study, 'What do you need for your well-being right now, what do you need for your productivity right now and what do you need for your happiness right now,' the answers are the same," Forde said in an online forum on the topic hosted Thursday by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council. "It's child care, it's access to mental health care and it's flexibility at work."