OPINION

Covid-19 threatens women's jobs

Oped, Michele Barry & Geeta Rao Gupta, Published on 02/07/2021

» One in four. That's the proportion of American women who are considering downshifting their careers or leaving the workforce due to the impact of Covid-19. In just one year, the pandemic has driven more than two million women in the United States out of the workplace, resulting in the largest male-female unemployment gap in two decades.