Laura Pazos

1 Introduction When COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in March 2020, families experienced major disruptions to their daily routines. Many parents were either laid off or forced to work from home while tasked with additional childcare when schools and daycares were closed (Qian and Fuller 2020). For the past 5 years, researchers have illuminated varied effects of the pandemic on the gendered division of domestic labor and parents' mental health.