Staggering stat: Over 1 million men surged into the labor force last month — getting a job or looking for one — compared to just 39,000 women
The super tight labor market pushed lots of men back to work in January, but women were held back by Omicron.More than 1 million men surged into the job market last month, coming off the sidelines and either looking for a job or getting a job, compared to just 39,000 women, according to government data released Friday.The Labor Department doesn't offer an explainer on these numbers, but it's not a leap to assume this is about child care.
Women with young children at home, who might have considered going back to work, likely couldn't because of unstable school and child care schedules. "We don't have the data that says, 'it was because of child care' but we can hear their voices screaming out behind the numbers," said Emily Martin, vice president for education and workplace justice at the National Women's Law Center, which published aWomen are in a tough spot, as there's still a shortage of child care workers and the possibility of school scheduling snafus with future variants.
One state's solution is to deregulate its daycare centers, giving child care workers more children to look after; a widely criticized move that could put children's safety in danger, asThe January numbers are less terrible than what happened to women back in September 2020, when hundreds of thousands of women left the workforce even as kids went back to school.
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