Despite record job gains in June, new data shows that women are still being left behind (via CNBCMakeIt)
Though 57.1% of the jobs women gained back last month were in the leisure and hospitality and retail sectors, experts fear that women could be in jeopardy of losing those jobs again as states re-impose restrictions on service sector businesses.
As a result of increased Covid-19 cases, several states, including Florida, California and Texas, have announced that they'reof opening more service sector businesses in an effort to slow the spread of the virus. "As the entire child-care sector shut down, women were losing flexibility at the very moment that employers were deciding who to lay off and who to fire," she says. And, with women continuing to take on the
As the economy tries to rebound from the impact of the pandemic, Martin says it will be important to monitor how Latina and Black women fare in the job market as they've been impacted the most by job losses.
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