The system has faced a sudden transition to remote teaching and learning, changes in grading systems, and the loss of access to research resources. Additionally, shifts in household labor, childcare, eldercare, and physical confinement have increased students’ and faculty’s mental health needs, and reduced the time available to perform academic work.
This means that women will likely bear a greater burden of this pandemic. This will be even heavier for women who face intersecting systems of oppression. Thus, academia will need to enact solutions to retain and promote women’s work.