Impact of She-Cession Not Being Felt Equally Among Women, Experts Say
By Brianna Kudisch State officials, policymakers, and leading academics virtually [...]
Women Who Lost Jobs in Pandemic May Wait Years to Work Again
By Francesca Chambers Women who lost their jobs during the [...]
How to Cure the She-Cession: 15 Moves to Help Working Women Recover
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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.
