Not only have women been disproportionately impacted by job loss during the pandemic, but more than 1.8 million women have also left the labor force since February 2020, according to the National Women s Law Center, meaning they are no longer looking or applying for work.
This mass exit has been attributed to the ongoing caregiving crisis women face, with mothers three times as likely as fathers to be responsible for housework and child care during the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a September report released by Lean In and McKinsey & Company. Mothers are also twice as likely as fathers to worry that their work performance is being judged negatively because of their caregiving duties during the pandemic. As a result, experts say a lack of paid family and medical leave, along with the closure of many schools and child-care centers, has led millions of women to leave the workplace.
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Alcohol deliveries soar during pandemic, Massachusetts Treasurer Deb Goldberg says
Updated Mar 03, 2021;
By Chris Lisinski | State House News Service
A surge in home deliveries of alcoholic beverages, disproportionate job losses among women during the pandemic, and long-sought authorization for cashless lottery sales are all on Treasurer Deborah Goldberg’s mind as the Legislature kicks off its annual budget review.
The COVID-19 pandemic created months of uncertainty on the state’s financial outlook, but Goldberg told the Joint Ways and Means Committee that the fiscal picture “remains relatively robust” as Massachusetts approaches the one-year anniversary of its public health state of emergency.