Will the COVID-19 pandemic have a lasting impact on gender inequality in the US workforce?
“Recent analysis published in Economic survey During the COVID-19 pandemic, US women with school-aged children were found to suffer greater employment losses (and reduced working hours) than men. The gender gap in the employment of women with young children did not change significantly.
The results of this study show that most of the reductions in female work School-aged children It was due to additional childcare responsibilities as the children spent more time at home due to school closures or ‘COVID maternity penalties.’
The authors state that these changes caused by the pandemic can have a lasting negative impact on women’s employment and wages.”