How to Cure the She-Cession: 15 Moves to Help Working Women Recover
By Kerri Anne Renzulli More than 4.5 million fewer women [...]
Exclusive: Pandemic Could Cost Typical American Woman Nearly $600,000 in Lifetime Income
By Emily Peck New signs of the nation's expanding recovery [...]
A Woman’s Struggle to Overcome Long-Term Unemployment
By Mitchell Hartman The Labor Department’s jobs report for April [...]
IWPR Testifies to Congress on the Importance of an Accessible, Affordable Child-Care System
The COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need for a robust [...]
New Report Shows Young Women Workers Still Struggling a Decade After the Great Recession, Offers Lessons for the Pandemic Recovery
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – May 25, 2021 Contact: Erin Weber [...]
Young Women Workers Still Struggling a Decade After the Great Recession: Lessons for the Pandemic Recovery
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a “she-cession,” with women experiencing a disproportionate share of job losses (Institute for Women’s Policy Research 2021). Young women ages 16 to 24 years old suffered the largest percentage decline in employment compared to young men and prime-age workers, mainly due to their concentration in service sectors and occupations that had been hit the hardest by the pandemic recession (Sun 2021). The outsized effects of the COVID-19 pandemic recession on young women reflect pre-existing inequalities in the labor market. Achieving an equitable economic recovery requires understanding how the U.S. labor market has been transformed in the past decade and beyond—to the detriment of workers.
Why It’s Hard to Hire Right Now
In the past few weeks, 22 states have announced they [...]
Child Care at Core of Women’s Slow Post-Pandemic Return to Work
By Katie Kindelan In 1971, Congress passed the Comprehensive Child [...]
Why Is Re-entering the Workforce So Hard on Moms?
By Heidi Borst In April 2020, at the height of [...]
Why These Two Policies Are Vital to Working Moms and Post-Pandemic Recovery
By Tanya Tarr Mother’s Day in the United States has [...]
