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At August’s Rate, It Will Take Women 9 years to Regain The Jobs They Lost in The Pandemic
At August’s Rate, It Will Take Women 9 years to Regain The Jobs They Lost in The Pandemic
The most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly jobs report shows that the economy gained 235,000 jobs in August 2021. Women accounted for just 11.9% of job gains last month, gaining 28,000 jobs while men gained 207,000. Women will need nearly 9 straight years of job gains at last month’s level to recover the nearly 3.0 million net jobs they have lost since February 2020.
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