Americans Are Getting Back to Work, but Job Growth is Twice as High For Men Than For Women, and the Gender Jobs Deficit Widens
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New Jobs Numbers Show that Women Recovered fewer than Half of All Jobs Lost since February 2020
Washington, DC— While new Employment Situation data for February shows a 245,000 increase in women’s jobs on payroll (64.6% of all added jobs), women are still 5.1 million jobs below February 2020, compared with 4.4 million fewer jobs on payroll for men; at its deepest level in April 2020 women’s payroll employment was down 12.1 million.
