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More than 2 million women left the workforce in 2020. Why it matters and what happens next
When the coronavirus pandemic blockade hit the United States in March, Reshma Saujani, founder and CEO of Girls Who Code and mother of two, saw the impact manifest in her own life, as well as in the lives of her employees, who are predominantly working women and mothers. “We are teachers, counselors, nurses, janitors, babysitters and no one has ever asked us,” said Saujani of the additional roles that working mothers took on when schools moved to virtual learning and offices were remote. Saujani said that without stimulus checking for working mothers, without help with childcare and apparently without consideration for mothers ‘careers with school closings, she quickly realized that mothers’ invisible work was not valued, saying: “I mean literally, that our work has no economic value at all.”