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COVID-19

Women three times more likely than men to not work during pandemic because of child care

by Jasmine Garsd
Aug 21, 2020
COVID-19 has driven women's unemployment rate higher than men's and could worsen the gender pay gap in the long term.
Child care needs are part of the reason the current recession has had a greater effect on women than on men.
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COVID-19

Job losses indicate we are in a "she-cession"

by Nancy Marshall-Genzer
May 28, 2020
Women are disproportionately impacted by the coronavirus pandemic when it comes to jobs.
Two servers at a reopened restaurant in Las Vegas. The jobs that have been lost recently, like servers and retail clerks, are mostly done by women.
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