Unexpected school closures and reinstated lockdowns, on top of a crippled child care industry, could reverse what progress women have made since the pandemic abated earlier this year
That gap began to narrow around March, Greszler said. But then, “it started to decline or at least flattened out while men’s continued to improve.”a reason to pass their $1.7 trillion social spending package
Though the pay gap held mostly steady in 2020, men’s wages have this year grown faster than women’s. Weekly median earnings for women increased by 1.8 percent between the first and third quarter of 2021,Gaps on women’s resumes could, in the long run, aggravate the problem, economists warn. Time out of the workforce aside, more women may also wind up working remotely, particularly if Omicron prompts another round ofworkplace shutdowns, Sasser Modestino said, which could deprive them of in-person opportunities and become “a really large limiting factor going forward in terms of women's advancement.”
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