After making up a larger share of the workforce than men in 2019, 5.1 million American mothers left their jobs in 2020. Today, 1.3 million of them are still out of work. How do we bring back the decades of gains women have made in the workforce that the pandemic erased? Rethinking motherhood — and how it shows up on your resume and discussed in interviews — is a big part of the discussion. "We need to put the word "mother" on our résumés. Doing so combats implicit and explicit bias by proclaiming that motherhood is something unambiguously positive, not to mention a common life choice," writes HeyMama's Katya Libin. "It also helps demonstrate that the skills mothers use to keep families afloat are transferable to the workplace." I want to hear from you: If you're a caregiver starting to look for work again after losing an opportunity in the pandemic, how are hiring managers treating your time out of the workforce? Do you feel like most managers understand how the pandemic has impacted working parents or do you feel the need to hide the gap in your resume? What skills have you learned in this past year that you want to take into your next role? Let me know in the comments below or email me at [email protected].