Press Hit: Working Moms See Self-employment as a Lifeline

The Invisible Hand

May 19, 2022

Written by Trina Mannino

Before the pandemic, Miranda Doyle, 34, worked as a project manager at a Pennsylvania- based interior design company. 

The business shut down temporarily when the state issued a stay-at-home order in March 2020, allowing Doyle to take care of her three children while they attended school remotely. The company resumed projects a few months later and she returned to work again that summer. But once Doyle found out that her kids’ schools were going hybrid in September, she knew something had to give.

“‘Well, I’m not going back to work,” Doyle remembers thinking. “So how do we figure this out?’” 

She decided to strike out on her own. Doyle came across a digital entrepreneur course, which set the groundwork for her branding and website design business that she launched last year. 

Many women struggle with balancing family and professional life. Those two worlds came to a head during the pandemic as a historic number of women dropped out of the labor force.

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