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COVID-19 May Wipe Out Decades of Progress for Working Mothers

Source: Perlita Stroh, cbc.ca, August 18, 2020

A report last month from RBC Economics called the loss on women’s employment “unprecedented,” with 1.5 million women in Canada losing their jobs in the first two months of the pandemic.

Charlotte Schwartz has four children under the age of 10, one with special needs. She also has a full-time career as a legal clerk at a busy family law practice in Toronto, and since the pandemic forced people into their homes in March, she’s been doing both her jobs around the clock with little reprieve.

“I’ve started to shift my day,” said Schwartz, 37. “So, I do a bunch of stuff pretty early in the morning, a bunch of stuff late at night, but it’s very … exhausting.”

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