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Ending Women’s Work
The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare some facts about occupational segregation by gender in the United States. As I explained in a previous post, Essential workers in the United States, whose jobs were deemed “too vital to be halted” during the pandemic, are overwhelmingly women. The jobs of these essential workers are generally underpaid, undervalued, and … Read more
Women’s Gains in the Job Market: Good News and Bad News
“American women have just achieved a significant milestone,” reports Claire Cain Miller of the New York Times. Women now hold slightly more (50.4 percent) payroll jobs than men. While women passed this milestone once before in mid-2010 during the recession, the economy is now doing well. What has made the difference? Miller explains that Male-dominated … Read more