1/4 of US Women may quit their jobs

[Anonymous]

While the schools remain closed in greater DMV area in the setting of pandemic-wide lows in testing and diagnosed cases, fully a QUARTER of American women are contemplating quitting their jobs, on every economic level. No one should be surprised that this challenge, like a myriad others, affects women of color harder than everyone else.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-30/leanin-org-finds-covid-19-could-push-women-out-of-workforce-and-senior-roles?sref=px9VEDa6&utm_source=url_link&fbclid=IwAR3r-BTlmgl2kkebaxZqAIQujm4yHcZr_hCGwby5Yg1BmNLahPquXDRgshc

We need to demand re-opening of the schools, prioritizing special needs students, early elementary grades, children of documented essential workers, and ESOL.

What is happening right now is not OK.

[Anonymous]

2 of my friends already did

[Anonymous]

I "dialed back". My 9th grader with ADHD is really struggling as in my 7th grader who is being asked to do things at an executive functioning level that she is struggling with.

I wish they were more independent - but they are not.

The school helps in some ways - but not in others. Example - every schedule I saw said 1st period started at 9AM only to find out that it really starts at 8:55 AM. My kids has been 5 minutes late for 5 weeks.

[Anonymous]

Of 9 kids in my kid’s preschool class (all umc families, two professional incomes), two left due to parents losing jobs and two left due to parents cutting back hours/leaving jobs (in the case of kids who left both had slightly older siblings like K age).

[Anonymous]

Pp here. So the quarter was pretty accurate plus another quarter out due to job loss. I should say our preschool does pull quite a few kids whose parents work at corporate hq for Hilton Hotels (NOVA) which may explain the numbers.

[Anonymous]

This would not surprise me at all.

[Anonymous]

I understand a single mom.

But no married woman should quit her job. I am married and will NOT be quitting. There is NO reason that woman should need to quit their jobs while men do not! Just say no, ladies. Is your husband going to quit his job to do housework and distance learning? Of course not. Women have to stop voluntarily sacrificing their careers and financial well-being when men do not.

[Anonymous]

My company does many small layoffs because of current poor economy. I think I maybe out of job by the end of this year or early next year. That sucks because I send my child to private school in person so that I can work from home & he is happier. Well, if I am out of job, I have to rethink of our situation.

I am not good at supervising DL or homeschooling. I tried in the spring, and there were many yelling & stress.

[Anonymous]

We've had one person quit because of the demands of virtual schooling. She has a middle schooler and 2 high schoolers and felt she needed to be present.

Notably, she's one of only 2 employees with school aged-kids. The other employee's child is attending school in-person. The rest of us either have very young kids with daycares back open, their children are grown, or don't have kids.

[Anonymous]

As a SAHM, these articles about women quitting all seem pretty obvious to me. Yes, a few of you managed to marry a fully “woke” equal partner who will do 50% or more of the “mental load” in addition to housework and child rearing, but I learned pretty quickly I did not marry such a man.

And I’ll be damned if I’m going to carry the whole mental load, run the house, care for the kids AND work a full time job. I’m not a martyr.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I understand a single mom.

But no married woman should quit her job. I am married and will NOT be quitting. There is NO reason that woman should need to quit their jobs while men do not! Just say no, ladies. Is your husband going to quit his job to do housework and distance learning? Of course not. Women have to stop voluntarily sacrificing their careers and financial well-being when men do not.

What? How can single moms quit their jobs? Who is going to pay the bills? I see where you were headed with this tangent but your offramp is bananas.

[Anonymous]

I haven't considered quitting, but I did chose not to apply for a position that just opened up that would have been a big promotion. I just can't handle added responsibility and learning a new job right now, while also having an 8 and 10 year old at home.

[Anonymous]

I did but I hated my job and this just gave me the push I needed to do something I was already tempted to do.

With three kids doing distance learning, there is a lot of hand holding and juggling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a SAHM, these articles about women quitting all seem pretty obvious to me. Yes, a few of you managed to marry a fully “woke” equal partner who will do 50% or more of the “mental load” in addition to housework and child rearing, but I learned pretty quickly I did not marry such a man.

And I’ll be damned if I’m going to carry the whole mental load, run the house, care for the kids AND work a full time job. I’m not a martyr.

So don’t do the mental load and housework. Just say no.

Prioritize yourself and your career. You deserve it the same as a privileged man does. Again no one is forcing you to do housework. You basically allowed your husband to force you to quit working and when your kids are older you’ll deeply regret it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We've had one person quit because of the demands of virtual schooling. She has a middle schooler and 2 high schoolers and felt she needed to be present.

Notably, she's one of only 2 employees with school aged-kids. The other employee's child is attending school in-person. The rest of us either have very young kids with daycares back open, their children are grown, or don't have kids.

We have a lot with kids. The directors and vps all have childcare by now...paid help coming in, private schooling, nanny etc.

I’m doing a nannyshare with another director at work for my preschool age kid.

It’s the admin staff and junior staff that are suffering and trying to work with kids at home and patch together childcare still or cutting hours.