By Caroline Fairchild Last month, the unemployment rate for women grew by 0.9% compared with 0.7% for men. And a recent survey by LeanIn and Survey Monkey uncovered that 31% of women with full-time jobs and families say they have more to do than they can possibly handle. Only [...]

Since the coronavirus sent the U.S. economy into a medically induced coma, more than 21 million jobs have been lost. And research shows women lost nearly 6 out of every 10 jobs across all sectors. In April alone, women's job losses were five times higher [...]

By: Nicole Lyn Pesce Recession? More like shecession, according to the New York Times. While Friday’s jobs report was devastating across the board, with another 20.5 million jobs wiped away in April as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, a demographic breakdown of the unemployment numbers reveals [...]

A majority of the jobs lost in April were held by women, a sharp reversal of gains in the labor market. By Alisha Haridasani Gupta "We should go ahead and call this a ‘shecession.’” — C. Nicole Mason, president and chief executive of the Institute for [...]

By: Jonnelle Marte Cashiers and bartenders each earn a median of $11.40 an hour, and waitresses make a median $11 per hour, according to data from the Labor Department - making it likely that workers had little savings to rely on during the crisis. In [...]