It would take four months of growth at February’s rate for women to recoup all of their job losses since the pandemic began, according to the NWLC.
Yet women are still lagging behind men in economic recovery: Men have now recouped all of their job losses since the pandemic began, but the NWLC estimates that it would take about four months of growth at February's rate for women to get back all of their job losses since the pandemic began. There are still nearly 1.1 million fewer women in the labor force now compared to February 2020, the NWLC reports.
Education and health services as well as leisure and hospitality saw significant job gains last month, adding 112,000 and 179,000 new jobs, respectively. Women gained about 84,000, or 75% of the jobs added in education and health services, and took 70,000, or about 39%, of the jobs in leisure and hospitality.
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