Childcare alone won’t solve our economic woes. This is how to get women back to work

Photo by Brian Wangenheim on Unsplash. Article by Katica Roy. Fast Company – June 24, 2021.

The CEO of Pipeline Equity notes the U.S. economy lost $2.7 trillion in a single year, owing to the pandemic’s scarring effects on gender equity.

When Vice President Harris described the mass exodus of women leaving the labor force as a “national emergency,” she was absolutely correct. The U.S. regressed to 1988 levels in terms of women’s labor force participation, meaning we’ve lost 32 years of progress toward gender equity in the labor markets—all in a span of 11 months. […]

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