Women Gain Disproportionately Fewer Jobs in May, and Face Disproportionately Higher Job Losses since February
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‘You’re stuck’: America wants to reopen its economy. It won’t happen without schools or child care
By BRACEY HARRIS For all the talk of getting America [...]
With women’s unemployment sky high, this recession is a ‘shecession,’ expert says
By Katie Kindelan via During the coronavirus pandemic, more than 38 [...]
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
Women Lost More Jobs than Men in almost all Sectors of the Economy
Employment data released on Friday, April 3 show dramatic job losses and sharp rises in unemployment for both women and men since February. Altogether 701,000 jobs were lost, the majority (58.8 percent or 412,188) by women. While these estimates of job losses are already outdated – since their collection in the second week of March new applications for unemployment reached almost ten times that level–they point to the critical role of gender in understanding the impact of the COVID -19 crisis.
Black and Hispanic Women Lag in Recovering from the Recession
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Small Steps Forward in Job Gains, But Not Enough to Close Gender Gap
By Caroline Hopper On Friday, the Bureau of Labor Statistics [...]
After the Great Recession
By Heidi Hartmann This post was originally published on the [...]
New IWPR/Rockefeller Survey Reveals Need and Support for Social Security Funding
By Zoe Li The Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR), [...]
An Unbalanced Debt Deal: Cutting Vital Programs Does Not Address the Deficit
The deal to raise the debt ceiling that may or [...]
