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CHICAGO (WLS) ABC 7, Chicago s No. 1 station for news, presented a virtual town hall examining the significant impact of COVID-19 on rising unemployment numbers for women and communities of color.
ABC 7 reporter Leah Hope moderated OUR CHICAGO: Voices of the Community, an hourlong event available on abc7chicago.com, Thursday, March 11, at 2:00 p.m.
According to a recent Federal Reserve article, women have faced higher unemployment rates than men during the pandemic, in part because COVID-19 has hit sectors with large percentages of female workers, particularly in the service industry. With schools closed and homes becoming the new classroom, approximately one-third of working mothers were considering taking a leave of absence in order to facilitate their children s educational needs. Some women faced dropping out of the workforce entirely or cutting back hours. With affordable childcare often out of reach, many women had to choose between working and taking care of their famili
CHICAGO (WLS) ABC 7, Chicago s No. 1 station for news, presented a virtual town hall examining the significant impact of COVID-19 on rising unemployment numbers for women and communities of color.
ABC 7 reporter Leah Hope moderated OUR CHICAGO: Voices of the Community, an hourlong event available on abc7chicago.com, Thursday, March 11, at 2:00 p.m.
According to a recent Federal Reserve article, women have faced higher unemployment rates than men during the pandemic, in part because COVID-19 has hit sectors with large percentages of female workers, particularly in the service industry. With schools closed and homes becoming the new classroom, approximately one-third of working mothers were considering taking a leave of absence in order to facilitate their children s educational needs. Some women faced dropping out of the workforce entirely or cutting back hours. With affordable childcare often out of reach, many women had to choose between working and taking care of their famili
Why the shecession will last long after COVID-19 pandemic ends
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Share: While some women are breaking the glass ceiling, others have been forced to take a step back as the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered a so-called shecession.
In January 2020, women outnumbered men in the United States workforce. In December 2020, women accounted for nearly 90% of the jobs lost. Black women and Latinas have been hit especially hard by unemployment.
But the job problem goes even deeper. In order to be counted as unemployed, you have to be actively looking for work but more than 2 million women have left the labor force during the pandemic, and they re not looking for work because they are staying home to care for children or other family members.
Employment among women remains about 5.3 per cent below where it sat in February 2020 just before the first wave of COVID-19, compared to about 3.7 per cent for men