Women's careers in the time of coronavirus
Monday, June 22, 2020 - 09:00
in Psychology & Sociology
Over the course of 2020, COVID-19 has been transforming the world in ways that we cannot yet fully fathom. Family work-life balance was already increasingly challenged with occupational burn-out and over-reliance on digital devices. A growing focus on "wellness" as the panacea to all of this work intensification has led critics like Carl Cederström and André Spicer to underscore the ways in which such a "wellness syndrome" commands more work—and guilt—out of already-overworked individuals. That's why the slowdown imposed by the pandemic has been in some ways welcomed by working parents.