The Pandemic Is Hitting Working Women the Hardest. Here's How CHROs Say We Can Fix the Problem
All of this adds up to what some economists are calling a "shecession" — a significant decline in economic activity over months or years that just happens to be impacting women the hardest. PwC's Women in Work index posits that because so many women have retreated from the labor market, women's progress at work has been reversed to 2017 levels. Pandemic's disproportionate effect on women While that's certainly disheartening news for women, it will likely have a chilling effect across the entire economy. The disproportionate effect of Covid-19 — or more precisely, the shutdowns imposed t...