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	Podcast:		The Anxious Achiever
	Episode:		Anxiety, Depression, and Working Moms in a Pandemic
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:34:20
	Publish Date:		2020-11-30 17:30:21
	Description:		Jessica Calarco, associate professor of sociology at Indiana University, is studying women struggling to balance work and parenting during the Covid-19 pandemic. She explains how societal pressures and our own ideas about motherhood, along with systemic failures, are causing working mothers to suffer greater anxiety and depression than before the pandemic. But she says there are ways workplaces can help. Further Reading: “‘Let’s Not Pretend It’s Fun’: How COVID-19-Related School and Childcare Closures are Damaging Mothers’ Well-Being” (Jessica Calarco, 2020) “Why U.S. Working Moms Are So Stressed – And What To Do About It” (HBR IdeaCast, 2019)
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