Today: Women in 2020

2020 was a collective year of reckoning politically, socially and economically and women were often disproportionately impacted, losing more jobs than men, facing heightened inequality at home through unpaid care, and making up 77% of the healthcare workforce. Although women have faced the worst of the pandemic, racial injustices, and income inequality and they have manage to affect enormous change in the past year. Tremendous strides have been made by women, especially women of color, in the form of championing the Black Lives Matter movement, registering record numbers of black voters in Georgia, and rising to the Vice Presidency of the United States. Artists turned to their crafts to make sense of the tumultuous year. Here, artists chose to explore what it means to be a woman in a global pandemic, how a woman's right to choose is still being called into question and how tapping into an over-the-top femininity can be both comforting and empowering.