As women who have dual roles as parents and academicians, COVID-19 has presented new challenges and opportunities that have impacted our personal and professional lives. This essay provides insight into unique obstacles from the perspective of mothers, researchers, and social workers and challenges the traditional models of work/life balance as professionals in academics. This reflexive essay provides the narratives and experiences of one assistant professor and two doctoral students who are learning to navigate motherhood and professional responsibilities amidst a global pandemic. The prologue presents a perspective from a current assistant professor and her lived experiences followed by the reflections of two doctoral students on how to navigate the academy as mothers and as women. In addition to our personal stories and narratives, we hope to challenge, inspire, and reimagine how our dual roles can be viewed as an asset, rather than a weakness and encourage others in the academy to rise and support women.

作为担负父母和院士双重角色的女性，COVID-19带来了新的挑战和机遇，这些挑战和机遇影响了我们的个人和职业生活。本文从母亲，研究人员和社会工作者的角度洞悉了独特的障碍，并挑战了作为学者的传统工作/生活平衡模式。这篇反思性文章提供了一位助理教授和两名博士生的故事和经历，他们正在全球流行中学习如何驾驭母亲和职业责任。序言介绍了现任助理教授的观点以及她的生活经历，随后是两位博士生对如何以母亲和女性身份驾校的思考。除了我们的个人故事和叙述之外，