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NEW YORK An online tool from the Institute for Women s Policy Research makes the case that ending reproductive health restrictions is good for women and good for business. More than 500 bills restricting or banning abortion have been introduced across 46 states so far this year. Alexis McGill Johnson, president and CEO for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said the data show if all state-level abortion restrictions were eliminated, more than a half-million women would enter the workforce, and annual earnings for all women would increase by an average of more than $1,600 a year. .
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How to Cure the She-Cession: 15 Moves to Help Working Women Recover
On 05/26/21 at 9:19 AM EDT
More than 4.5 million fewer women are working now than at the start of the pandemic, setting women s participation rate in the workforce back more than 30 years. A combination of layoffs, particularly in female-dominated fields hit hard by COVID like tourism and hospitality, and a lack of child care resulting from school and daycare closures are to blame. But a return to normal won t by itself repair the economic damage to women and the goal of gender equity in the workplace that s resulted.
The solution, experts say, instead must involve systemic changes on the part of employers and the federal government, as well as some smart strategizing from women themselves (when their circumstances allow it) to get them back to work and to strengthen their long-term financial security. Here are 15 steps experts recommend that individuals, compan