For Anica John, the pandemic was a revelation. At the beginning of the lockdown, she had a 5-year-old child and worked in product management at Walmart Labs. John, whose husband is a professor at Stanford University, became the default parent while working remotely. By the time return-to-office mandates began to roll in, John had two children and was working at Amazon. “Things became impossible,” she says. “We outsourced household tasks as much as we could, but I didn’t feel like life was getti