The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has had far-reaching consequences for many people and has amplified disparities that existed before the pandemic. One area that has received attention pertains to women, especially female parents, in academic environments. Before the pandemic, women already assumed more of the household and childcare duties than their male counterparts.1- 3 With the pandemic, this disparity has likely been amplified and may now be adversely affecting the careers of women in academia in an unfortunate and lasting manner. With the shutdown of daycare centers and schools, women have assumed nearly twice as much of responsibility for caring for their children at home compared with men.4,5 As such, women’s ability to successfully work from home may be hampered, negatively influencing their academic productivity. It has been reported that during the COVID-19 pandemic, the percentage of men uploading manuscripts to the preprint servers arXiv.org and bioRxiv.org from March 15 to April 15, 2020, increased more than the percentage of women compared with the same period in 2019.6 Authorship gender among 15 839 COVID-19 articles published between January 1 and June 5, 2020, was compared with 85 373 articles published in the same journals during 2019, with both samples being based on first and/or last authors with US affiliations.7 The study found that women represented 5% less of first and last authorship positions in 2020 compared with men.