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“It’s not just women who suffer, it’s their entire family who’s going to suffer if we don’t pay them what they’re owed.”

Leah Bloom of Somerville, Massachusetts, is one of the many moms forced to quit her full-time job to stay home with her 8-year-old son during the COVID-19 pandemic. “It’s been really hard for me, career-wise,” she said. “The only thing to do was leave my business on hold.” Bloom had her own communications consulting business, but when schools closed,...

The last year of lockdown has been especially hard on working moms, who too often had to drop everything when schools went remote and day cares shut down.

“I think if companies don’t step up to help, there will be long-term impacts.”

“If we’re going to build America back better, we’ve got to build motherhood back better.”

“Many moms were having a hard time juggling it all before the pandemic.”

New data from the National Women’s Law Center shows that despite record job gains in June, women are disproportionately being left behind in today’s economic rebound.

Research is increasingly pointing to a retreat of working mothers from the U.S. labor force, as the pandemic leaves parents with few child care options and the added burden of navigating distance learning