Exclusive: Pandemic Could Cost Typical American Woman Nearly $600,000 in Lifetime Income By Emily Peck Photo Illustration by Newsweek; Source Images Getty New signs of the nation's expanding recovery from the pandemic crop up every day, but for millions of women in the U.S. the economic punch of COVID may never be over. Long after the face masks have been tucked away and the kids are back in school full-time, after offices reopen, jobs are regained and life returns to some semblance of normalcy, the financial fallout of the past 15 months will continue to trail these women—likely, for th...