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How have women in the workforce fared, three years into the pandemic?
A childcare worker at a table with three young children.

(Homepage image) Women take on the majority of work in the care economy, both the informal, unpaid kind and paid jobs in fields like child care, education, and social services. “It might seem like the gender disparity has washed out and, in many areas, we have rebounded to pre-COVID levels,” says Gonalons-Pons. “But the care economy has not yet recovered.”

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How have women in the workforce fared, three years into the pandemic?

Despite hopeful signs that this demographic is returning to work, certain female-dominated sectors, like the care economy, still haven’t recovered, signaling there’s more to learn about COVID-19’s full effect.

Michele W. Berger

Here’s how to boost your daily happiness in only three minutes
CNET

Here’s how to boost your daily happiness in only three minutes

A 2005 study by Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences found that writing down three good things that happened at the end of each day led to long-term increases in happiness and decreases in depression.

Here’s how to boost your daily happiness in only three minutes
CNET

Here’s how to boost your daily happiness in only three minutes

A 2005 study by Martin Seligman of the School of Arts & Sciences found that writing down three good things that happened at the end of each day led to long-term increases in happiness and decreases in depression.

With frank text and bold illustrations, graphic novel tackles puberty head on
Gemma Hong and Sophie Young standing together holding copies of their book.

Penn undergraduates Gemma Hong (left) and Sophie Young (right) hold copies of the graphic novel they wrote and created with alum Julie Merberg and illustrator Amelia Pinney.

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With frank text and bold illustrations, graphic novel tackles puberty head on

The new book, for 9- to 14-year-olds and written by two Penn undergrads and an alum, details what physically happens in the body as girls experience puberty, plus the internal emotions and external social forces that accompany it.

Michele W. Berger

Want to get in the flow? Try this math equation
Discover Magazine

Want to get in the flow? Try this math equation

Angela Duckworth of the School of Arts & Sciences says that the larger number of possible outcomes in graded assignments provides a greater reduction in uncertainty than pass-fail assignments.