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Women Gain Disproportionately Fewer Jobs in May, and Face Disproportionately Higher Job Losses since February

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By Ariane Hegewisch and Zohal Barsi|2025-01-27T19:24:12-05:00June 12, 2020|Equitable Work and Wages|0 Comments

Coronavirus pandemic forces millions of working women into “impossible” roles

By KELSEY MICKLAS The unemployment crisis sparked by the global coronavirus [...]

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Dramatic Decline in Employment Hits Women Even More Severely than Men

In the four weeks since mid-March, 20.5 million jobs were lost, according to new payroll data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics this Friday, May 8. Women bore the majority of job losses, 11.3 million (55 percent of the total), compared with 9.2 million jobs lost by men

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