The pandemic put everyone’s mental health through the ringer, but coronavirus-related stress has hit certain groups of people extra hard. Black people, Latinx folks, Indigenous people. Essential workers and first responders. Women in management positions. Working parents. And God bless anyone who has lived at the intersection of any of these categories for the past 19 months.
Early on, McKinsey’s 2020 Women in the Workplace report indicated that working parents’ childcare concerns were an issue. Of the parents surveyed, 11% of fathers and 15% of mothers said they were considering a step back from their career — compared to 10% of childless men and 12% of childless women.
