Sonia Doyle picked out a tiny desk at Goodwill, positioned it next to hers at the office, and brought her 4-year-old son to work.
Stephanie Searcy bumped up her house’s Wi-Fi speed and logged into her job alongside her homebound teenagers.
Ni’Aisha Banks-Devore, who was laid off from her administrative job at a warehouse, cobbled together hours from virtual part-time gigs as she corralled her four children, who were all under age 6.
“I’m on the phone with customers and clients and you’ve got the kids in the background screaming,” the Savannah resident recounted. “It was hard. It’s like what time would I be able to work?”
The pandemic upended working life for countless Americans. But more so for women than men. And two years in, many are still struggling to catch up to where they were.