COVID-19 and Beyond: Solutions for Academic Mothers After reading paper after paper describing the problem, scientists urge on- and off-campus entities to help female caregivers weather the pandemic through specific policy changes and approaches. By Nadia Bormotova/Getty Images Earlier this week, the National Academy of Sciences released a consensus report on the experiences of women in the academic sciences during COVID-19. The upshot of that report and others on the same topic is that the pandemic has disproportionately hurt the careers of women, especially mothers, who now require targeted, equity-based interventions. While that publication is deliberately short on solutions, focusing instead on further research questions, a new paper in