It wasn't that long ago that experts were worrying that women, especially moms, would never recover from the shock of 2020. But when it comes to the job market, they turned out to be wrong. The big picture: More mothers are working now than before the pandemic began. Catch up quick: From February to April 2020, mothers' employment plummeted nearly 16%, notes an analysis released by the Department of Labor's Women's Bureau. The assumption was that who left the workforce would have a tough time getting back in, and that would likely "exacerbate inequalities" between men and women, as one academic paper pointed ... (full story)