By just about every measure other than mortality (which is pretty important!), the COVID-19 pandemic has been harder on women than on men. The majority-female services sector lost jobs at at a faster rate than the majority-male goods-producing sector — which has never happened before in a recession. More women than men have dropped out of the labor force. Even women who held onto their jobs generally had to shoulder an outsized share of the new childcare and schooling burdens.
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