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As the pandemic continues to decimate the job market, the threat to women’s careers has never been greater.
The total number of women who have left the labor force since the start of the pandemic surpassed 2.3 million last month, making women’s labor force participation the lowest it’s been since 1988, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly job report. To compare, nearly 1.8 million men have left the labor force since February 2020, the report found.
Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio
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