Maine Voices: Legislature should address economic hardship for women
Maine Voices: Legislature should address economic hardship for women COVID has driven millions of American women out of the workforce. By Jane Margesson and Gilda E. NardoneSpecial to the Press Herald Share COVID-19 has had a disproportionate impact on working women. Before the pandemic, women had made important strides in the workforce. When the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics first began measuring women’s labor force rates in 1948, 32 percent of women were in the workforce. By the beginning of 2020, that number had increased to nearly 58 percent. Then the pandemic hit, driving over 2 mi...
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