Virtual Meetings

Overview: During this virtual meeting, we'll hear from people throughout our ISMRM and SMRT communities about their work-life-family balance during the era of COVID-19. Different people and regions are experiencing COVID-19 in very different ways. Recently reported data on paper submissions suggest that the experience is not equitable across gender. Nor is it similar from family to family or career to career. Here, we will present a few different perspectives on and ideas for work-life-family balance. We anticipate that you would benefit from participating no matter the number of children in your home (even zero), the stage of your career, and your gender identity. This virtual meeting is an opportunity for our community to gather, learn about each other's experiences, and think of ways to support each other now during the pandemic and in our post-pandemic world.

Objectives:

• Recognize that they are not alone struggling with work-life balance and enable networking between people in similar situations;
• Learn strategies to occupy their own or someone else's children through virtual interaction;
• Approach work in the era of COVID-19 with more patience. This is a marathon, not a sprint; and
• Learn how and where to raise awareness about the long-term consequences of combined care and work duties.