By Jasmine Browley ·Updated November 2, 2021
Following the pandemic, a “she-cession” has hit our economy hard. The unemployment rate for women has climbed to double digits: 16.2% and has disproportionately ravaged Black and Latina communities. We first saw female unemployment numbers like this in the 1980s, and even then the unemployment rate was about 6% percentage points lower than what we’re seeing now.
That, coupled with how women made up 55% of all jobs lost
