Women Made Up Nearly All The Job Losses Last Month. Here’s Why
“If we saw an unemployment rate for white men at the current rate it is for Black women, we would have already declared a recession,” says Jasmine Tucker, vice president for research at the National Women’s Law Center. “The data shows that we are reverting back to more white and more male workplaces, as people tend to hire people who look, think, and talk like them. It’s also playing out in the wage gap data, where the gender and racial wage gap has increased for two years in a row for the first time ever. White men’s earnings are increasing, and that’s great—we want that. But we want that for everyone.”