‘You have all the jobs’: Motherhood during the pandemic

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🗓️ 8 May 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

What being a working mom is like during a pandemic from Helena Andrews-Dyer. And how learning Bach could be an expression of grief from Philip Kennicott.

This Mother’s Day, stories of women balancing careers and kids concede that thriving is out of reach. Surviving is enough in the time of the coronavirus.

How one reporter found solace in Bach after losing his mother.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.3	Hi, this is Ben Tara's coming from the Washington Post.
0:07.8	Hi, Jeff.
0:08.8	Look, wintery.
0:09.8	Oprah.
0:10.8	Hi there.
0:11.8	How are you?
0:12.8	It's Lisa bonus.
0:13.8	This is Post Reports.
0:14.8	I'm Martine Powers.
0:18.8	It's Friday, May 8th.
0:23.3	Today, working moms in quarantine.
0:26.8	And what learning Bach can teach us about grief.
0:33.8	What do you need?
0:36.8	It's been insane.
0:41.8	No.
0:42.8	I just...
0:47.8	We're in this mode of...
0:53.4	It's going to work out because it has to, right?
0:57.4	When we wake up every morning, we just know the entire day is going to be insane.
1:02.9	And you just sort of mentally prepare yourself for that as quickly as you can.
1:07.2	Which isn't fast at all when you have a three-year-old who walks into your room and is like
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