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Women are driving the US labour market
A post-pandemic boom in female employment shows the ‘she-cession’ has been reversed
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While women are moving into traditionally male work, the trend is not going the other way.
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Rana Foroohar
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Of all of the pandemic-era labour trends that are now behind us, the “she-cession” is perhaps the most significant. Far from fleeing the workforce in the US, women are today driving it.
When Covid-19 first struck, female labour was hit hard, not only because women were disproportionately represented in locked-down sectors such as leisure, hospitality and education, but also because they took more responsibility for home schooling and childcare during pandemic restrictions. Many thought this would be a long-term trend.
