'Then she was let go in an impersonal email addressed “Dear cast member.” She had spent her entire adult life at Disney.'
“This is more than a short-term problem. Being out of the workforce is going to have a devastating impact on their longer-term financial security,” said Nancy LeaMond, executive vice president of AARP.
After she was laid off, she joined a Facebook group for people laid off by Disney. “Everybody was finding something to do, like making masks, detailing cars, whatever they could,” she told The 19th. Roberts decided to make and sell hot chocolate bombs. “I’m grateful. I enjoy doing it, but nothing will fill the void. I wish I’d even just gotten a phone call,” Roberts said, her voice choked with emotion.
Two thirds of mid-career women who lost their jobs during the pandemic have been out of work for six months or more, a period AARP’s research defines as “long-term unemployed.” The study found that the impact of the pandemic and related job losses fell harder on mid-career Black and Latina women than on White women. Women who already had caregiving responsibilities found those increased, as well as the related financial impact. The burden was especially heavy for Latinas. Over half of mid-career Latinas cared for a child, grandchild or disabled adult family member during the pandemic, more than their Black and White peers.
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