Rebecca Wilhoit was one of 865,000 women who left the workforce in September 2020 amid the shift to remote learning, school closures, and unpredictable childcare availability for her three children.
But this wasn’t the first time Wilhoit, 39, paused her career to take care of her kids—it was the third. Based in Greenville, S.C., Wilhoit now works as a writer in the tech industry. But her career path hasn’t been easy, as she stepped out of the workforce in both 2010 and 2016 thanks to a lack of employer support or flexibility for caregiving.
