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US women lost
4,637,000 jobs from March 2020 to January 2021 . Men lost
3,829,000 SOURCE : BUREAU OF LABOR STATISTICS
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32.1 % of women ages 25 to 44 stated child care as the reason for their unemployment , compared with 12.1 % of unemployed men the same age |
The US unemployment rate for Black and Latinx women is nearly
2x that of White men ; women with disabilities are even more likely to be unemployed SOURCE : NATIONAL WOMEN ’ S LAW CENTER
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Women comprise
39 % of global employment but more than50 % of overall pandemic job losses SOURCE : MCKINSEY GLOBAL INSTITUTE
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