What Women at Work Need Post-Pandemic: 7 Tips For Employers

The most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly jobs report revealed that while men have recouped all their labor force losses since the start of the pandemic, there are still over 1 million fewer women at work as of January 2022 as there were in February 2020, according to data analysis by the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC).

“The issues behind the ‘shecession’ are multifaceted and they have deep, deep roots in our culture,” says Liz Elting, founder of the Elizabeth Elting Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to helping marginalized communities including women advance. “The workplace has never been geared toward the thriving of women. And the pandemic just made that worse, exposing the systemic bias wherein women with working husbands were assumed to be expandable, and women with children were assumed to not be career-focused.”