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In this pandemic, I think employers have seen the importance and the benefit of being more flexible of helping their employees more.

And so call your employer and say,

hey, if I do want to continue to work,

but I can't do it at the pace I'm doing it.

Are there more flexible arrangements?

Is there a part-time schedule that can work for me?

Is there job sharing?

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Hey everybody, I'm Jean Chatsky. Thank you so much for joining me today on Her Money.

I am quite excited actually for today's episode because we're going to be talking about something

that I think every single working woman has done or has considered or has struggled with, myself included, we're going to be talking about what happens

when we leave the workforce to care for the people that we love most because 75% of all caregivers are women

and that was before the pandemic hit when those closest to us need us to give the care they require or when budgets dictate

that there is simply no other option.

What do we do?

How do we do it?

How do we make a plan to eventually get back to work?

How can we compensate for the income and

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