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The ethics of care and academic motherhood amid COVID‐19

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The COVID‐19 pandemic has upended the lives of working parents as they strive to meet the conflicting demands of childcare and professional obligations. While growing evidence suggests the extraordinary challenges to time and work brought by the pandemic, this article explores the pandemic as an opportunity for stillness and reflection, a personal and professional recalibration. Through a personal narrative describing my experiences as an academic and mother before and during the pandemic, framed within the ethics of care, this article brings light to the untenable reality of working mothers pre‐pandemic, explores the ways in which the pandemic has positively facilitated caring relationships at home as well as the reallocation of time and household responsibilities, and argues for policy and legislative action at the institutional and societal levels that support and value the care work of women and men alike.

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  • Karyn E. Miller, 2021. "The ethics of care and academic motherhood amid COVID‐19," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 28(S1), pages 260-265, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:gender:v:28:y:2021:i:s1:p:260-265
    DOI: 10.1111/gwao.12547
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