Lockdowns are disproportionately hurting female researchers, affecting their career prospects and the future of fair policymaking. In the first lesson that Italian social demographer Alessandra Minello recorded for her class at the University of Florence during the lockdown, her 2-year-old son can be heard playing his trumpet in the background. Minello quickly realized that “night and dawn — when he’s asleep — are my only options for recording.” That leaves her no time to work on the academic research she wants to get published. So when a male colleague told her that the lockdown was giving him more time to focus on his writing, she wanted to scream. |