It's a slippery slope. A "shecession" means women are leaving the workplace, devastating diversity initiatives and resetting the issue of gender equality. To combat it, agencies are introducing measures to allow flexibility for moms and caregivers, address mental health struggles and creating open spaces for vulnerable conversations as it relates to the pandemic. Digiday spoke with seven agency executives and women in the industry about the ‘shecession' and how they're coping. Read more below.

• “Women are still looked at to be caretakers first. A lot of people thought we were beyond [that], but we’re not," said Jen DaSilvia, president of creative agency Berlin Cameron.
• Decrypt is incentivizing users to interact with its content in exchange for the publication's take on cryptocurrency: DCPT.
• Investors are buying into companies in part because of the overwhelmingly positive narrative of online media’s unfettered growth during the pandemic.
• For Digiday+ members, heading into this year’s upfront, agency execs plan to demand that TV networks — as well as advertisers — take a more realistic look at the supply of ad inventory.
• As people become accustomed to coping with the fallout from the pandemic, they're bolder about requesting flexibility.
• Also for Digiday+ members, a keyword blocking strategy at Vice inappropriately determined some articles to be unsafe, according to findings by Vice and Oracle Data Cloud.