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A woman with a baby strapped to her chest, a diaper bag on her back, and her arms full of food at a Major League Baseball game has inadvertently become a metaphor for the disproportionate load mothers carry — in this case, literally.
A woman with a baby strapped to her chest, a diaper bag on her back, and her arms full of food at a Major League Baseball game has inadvertently become a metaphor for the disproportionate load mothers carry — in this case, literally.
The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results. A screengrab of a video posted to X that shows the woman carrying a baby, diaper bag and trays of food in the stands at Oracle Park in San Francisco.
A woman with a baby strapped to her chest, a diaper bag on her back, and her arms full of food at a Major League Baseball game has inadvertently become a metaphor for the"Holy smokes, Mike! Look at this," Duane Kuiper says as the woman makes her way across the aisle.
"If there's ever a true definition of a multitasking mother, that is the deal right there," Mike Krukow responds in the broadcast. , shows the man in the seat next to the "multitasking mother" staring at his phone until the woman is nearly beside him, standing up to move a coat out of her seat, then digging into his food while the woman shrugs the diaper bag off her back, still holding the grinning baby and two full trays.
"Did I just hear that guy say, 'Did you forget something? '" Kuiper asks, as the two broadcasters joke that maybe he she didn't bring any ketchup. The broadcast returned to her a few more times between pitches while Kuiper and Krukow expressed disbelief at the scene, exclaiming, "are you kidding me?
" and "bless her heart" as the man popped some fried food in his mouth. "She’ll be the last one to eat, too," added Kuiper. Neither the woman nor the man sitting beside her have been identified. CBC News has contacted the San Francisco Giants and NBC for comment, but has yet to hear back.
A screen grab of a video posted to X on Tuesday showing the scene in the stands at the San Francisco Giants game against the Minnesota Twins. Without hearing from the people involved, observers can't know the context of the situation — like whether the man is her partner, or whether or not help was offered.
But while some have argued you can't judge a situation based on a short clip, for many others, "multitasking mom" representsDespite gains, women still do most of the housework. Will this gender gap ever narrow? The clip is resonating because it gave a visual to a familiar sentiment — that women do more household labour and family management, explained Shana MacDonald, the O'Donovan Chair in communication at the University of Waterloo, who researches social and digital media.
On a broader scale, the past year has seen a significant increase in conversations around motherhood, MacDonald added. Some parts of society are emphasizing motherhood as "womens' central calling," she noted, while in other spheres, we're hearing more concerns aboutThe online obsession with the Lindsay Clancy trial has turned a horrific tragedy into a frenzy of speculation, misinformation and conspiracy theories.
For The National, CBC's Ashley Fraser examines how social media's insatiable appetite for the case both raises, and undermines, awareness about postpartum psychosis. The clip from the Giants game offers people a chance to voice their frustrations, Lisa Strohschein, a sociology professor at the University of Alberta and editor-in-chief of the journal Canadian Studies in Population, told CBC News.
She cautioned people against rendering judgments without knowing any of the context, while adding that the clip has tapped into the anger about structural inequalities in our society. All that to say, a woman balancing trays of dinner and a baby while a man next to her eats seems to be triggering for a lot of people, Strohschein said.
Sonja Baikogli and Jen Murtagh, founders of Maturn, which supports mothers with their transition into motherhood, are putting the spotlight on the motherhood penalty — a significant hurdle faced by working mothers, hindering their path to achieving gender equality. Natalie Stechyson has been a writer and editor at CBC News since 2021. She covers stories on social trends, families, gender, human interest, as well as general news.
She's worked as a journalist since 2009, with stints at the Globe and Mail and Postmedia News, among others. Before joining CBC News, she was the parents editor at HuffPost Canada, where she won a silver Canadian Online Publishing Award for her work on pregnancy loss. You can reach her at natalie.stechyson@cbc.ca. Did 'Marathon Mom' ignore her kids? Why a viral video is enraging runners and mothers
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