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Why the Pandemic Is Forcing Women Out of the Workforce

News Update | 23/10/2020 08:45 AM | Click to read full article

The pandemic has impacted women differently from men in multiple ways. In the beginning, we really had a gendered shutdown, and that was because many of the industries that laid people off were industries where women were the majority of workers.

Early on in the recession, we saw lots of women laid off because, not surprisingly, women do a lot of the in-person work in the economy, the kinds of work that couldn’t be done remotely.

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