The Shecession: Women Face Staggering Job & Income Losses Amid the Pandemic s Economic Crisis democracynow.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from democracynow.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Employment gap widens at the expense of women
By: Bo Evans
and last updated 2021-02-05 12:43:57-05
The number of U.S. jobs fell for the first time in seven months in December. Whatâs notable is that women account for all of that month s job losses.
âDr. C. Nicole Mason at the Institute for Womenâs Policy Research called this the âShe-cessionâ instead of the recession, because of those exact trends,â said Melissa Boteach
Boteach works for the National Womenâs Law Center (NWLC) and says because some structures of our economy, job losses are hurting women more than men.
Ocasio-Cortez’s explicit language around trauma may help facilitate other women’s healing, experts added (Patrick Semansky/AP; iStock; Lily illustration) Julianne McShane
Feb. 2, 2021
Alicia Sewell knows something about what it must have been like for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) to reveal in an hour-and-a-half-long Instagram Live video on Monday night that she is a survivor of sexual assault.
Last October, Sewell who works as an instructional technology specialist for Tuscaloosa City Schools in Alabama shared in a Facebook Live video viewed by 2,000 people that she was raped as a teenager.
“It’s frightening,” the 34-year-old said of going public. “The thing about it is you want to be believed you don’t want people to think that you’re lying or you’re doing it for attention.”
Women In Development (WID), New York Announces WID Virtual Forum on March 16
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NEW YORK, Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Women In Development (WID), New York, announces the WID Virtual Forum, a morning of extraordinary workshops for women in fundraising, on March 16, 2021 from 8:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. WID s mission is to empower, connect, and engage women in a community that fosters professional growth and leadership, while advancing the field.
Women In Development, New York Virtual Forum on March 16, 2021
Workshops will feature experts from the WID community and beyond sharing their wisdom on everything from development operations to navigating major gifts during the pandemic. All workshops will be available via recording after the event.