Burnout, depression stalk Vietnamese mothers coping with pandemic stress
By Long Nguyen February 24, 2021 | 11:13 am GMT+7
Increased financial insecurity and even heavier domestic burdens are stressing out Vietnamese mothers as they struggle with the fallout of Covid-19.
Le Thi Phuong, an hourly wage worker at a textile firm in Hanoi’s Long Bien District, starts her 90-minute lunch break at noon by rushing home to feed her children, whose school and kindergarten have been closed due to the new Covid-19 wave.
After lunch is done, she cleans the dishes, helps the children sleep, and returns to the factory, sometimes after screaming and yelling at my babies.
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I entered the job market when I was a graduate student at Dhaka University and have switched jobs many times since then. What I found kept me going are the hard skills and knowledge I acquired in Bangladeshi and American universities, but also some other softer skills including writing, critical thinking, and a curious mind. What does that tell the younger minds of today? The answer is: Get a good education, invest in some solid technical training, keep an open mind about new frontiers, and be a life-long learner.
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