Women in medicine were more likely than men to take on childcare responsibilities and report burnout, mental health symptoms and work-life imbalance during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to recent findings from two separate studies.
“Mothers across professions have been torn between their careers and their home lives during the pandemic,” Srijan Sen, MD, PhD, the director of the Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg and Family Depression Center at the University of Michigan, said in a press release.
In a prospective cohort study published in JAMA Network Open, Sen and colleagues examined