How Coronavirus Could Widen The Gender Wage Gap
4 years, 6 months ago

How Coronavirus Could Widen The Gender Wage Gap

NPR  

How Coronavirus Could Widen The Gender Wage Gap Enlarge this image toggle caption Mamie Brown Mamie Brown Mamie Brown is getting up earlier than ever these days.​ "A typical day for me starts about 4:30 to 5:00. Sponsor Message Coronavirus has women doing even more work at home The challenge of juggling work and raising kids has only increased during the pandemic, according to Claudia Goldin, professor of economics at Harvard University. A reduction in work hours, as Mamie Brown has experienced, is just one way the coronavirus pandemic could reverse economic gains women made over the last half-century. "We relied quite heavily on women during this pandemic, not only for work done in the home, but for work done outside the home," Holder said.

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What's behind the widening gender wage gap?
2 months, 3 weeks ago

What's behind the widening gender wage gap?

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Although women who lost or left their jobs …

As pandemic drags on, Latin American women lose even more ground
3 years, 4 months ago

As pandemic drags on, Latin American women lose even more ground

Al Jazeera  

Bogota, Colombia – Elcy Gomez’s monthly rent cheque has turned into a ticking time bomb. “With working women, the pandemic not only affected them by worsening structural problems they already faced; it also created new risks,” said Maria Adelaida Palacio, a leader at the Bogota-based feminist research group Sisma Mujer. More than half of the women in Latin America work …

Covid-19 has killed 18% MORE men than women in the UK
3 years, 9 months ago

Covid-19 has killed 18% MORE men than women in the UK

Daily Mail  

Coronavirus has killed 18 per cent more men than women over the course of the pandemic in England and Wales, official statistics show. The Office for National Statistics report found that the gender gap in Covid deaths was widest during the first wave, when 30 per cent more men died, before it narrowed during the summer and then grew again …

How coronavirus is setting women’s rights back decades
3 years, 10 months ago

How coronavirus is setting women’s rights back decades

The Independent  

Sign up for the Independent Women email for the latest news, opinion and features Get the Independent Women email for free Get the Independent Women email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Of parents surveyed by the Fawcett Society and Women’s Budget Group, 15 per cent of mothers …

EU to propose that companies report on gender pay gap
3 years, 10 months ago

EU to propose that companies report on gender pay gap

The Hindu  

Companies employing at least 250 people in the European Union will have to start providing data on gender pay gaps under a proposal by the bloc’s executive that comes as studies suggest the COVID-19 pandemic has hit female workers more than men. The gender pay gap differs from 1.4% in Luxembourg to 21.8% in Estonia, according to the European Commission, …

Women were let go in greater numbers during COVID, now they face being offered lower-paid roles to return to work
3 years, 10 months ago

Women were let go in greater numbers during COVID, now they face being offered lower-paid roles to return to work

ABC  

Melinda Rodd was all set to begin her first day as a travelling business development manager for a health products company when COVID-19 hit. Key points: 98,000 fewer university-educated women had work in May last year compared to the start of the pandemic That compares to 37,000 fewer young men One recruiter says women re-entering the workforce are now most …

Stuck-At-Home Moms: The Pandemic's Devastating Toll On Women
4 years, 2 months ago

Stuck-At-Home Moms: The Pandemic's Devastating Toll On Women

NPR  

Stuck-At-Home Moms: The Pandemic's Devastating Toll On Women Enlarge this image toggle caption Malte Mueller/fStop/Getty Images Malte Mueller/fStop/Getty Images Women are seeing the fabric of their lives unravel during the pandemic. Women are back in 1988 The pandemic's female exodus has decidedly turned back the clock by at least a generation, with the share of women in the workforce down …

Mom burnout: Pandemic driving millions of women from US workforce
4 years, 3 months ago

Mom burnout: Pandemic driving millions of women from US workforce

Al Jazeera  

For months at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Ashley Austrew tried to make it work. “In my executive coaching work and in talking with other working moms in general, one thing that’s come up as a theme is expectation management: High-performing women are struggling to lower the bar on the expectations they have for themselves, and they’re having a …

How the coronavirus crisis threatens to set back women’s careers
4 years, 3 months ago

How the coronavirus crisis threatens to set back women’s careers

Live Mint  

Kate Deisseroth spent two decades building a career as an orthopedic surgeon that now, in the Covid era, looks precarious. Dr. Deisseroth has no illusions about the consequences of such a drastic move: “As a surgeon, you can’t take a year or two off and go back in, so it would kind of be the end of that career.” Seven …

How women are feeling the economic impacts of coronavirus
4 years, 3 months ago

How women are feeling the economic impacts of coronavirus

CNN  

CNN — The economic recession caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected women by almost every measure. And, in the United States, the economic downturn is hitting women of color the hardest, according to C. Nicole Mason, president and CEO of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. So when we think about rebuilding an economy or women re-entering the …

Coronavirus crisis drives gender inequality with women ‘almost twice as likely as men’ to have lost jobs
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus crisis drives gender inequality with women ‘almost twice as likely as men’ to have lost jobs

The Independent  

The coronavirus crisis is driving gender inequality with women almost twice as likely as men to have lost their job during the pandemic, a new survey suggests. Researchers at the University of Exeter’s Business School discovered 7 per cent of women had been made redundant during the lockdown in comparison to 4 per cent of men. The report, which polled …

Women Bear the Brunt of Coronavirus Fallout in Workplace as Lockdowns Shock Economies
4 years, 6 months ago

Women Bear the Brunt of Coronavirus Fallout in Workplace as Lockdowns Shock Economies

News 18  

The reverberating economic shock of the coronavirus crisis has delivered a massive setback for women because so many work in the badly exposed services sector, experts say. The nature of the outbreak means women are more likely than men to lose or quit their jobs in vulnerable low-paying workplaces like bars, conference venues, hairdressing salons, hotels, pubs and restaurants, which …

Women Bear The Brunt Of Coronavirus Job Losses
4 years, 8 months ago

Women Bear The Brunt Of Coronavirus Job Losses

NPR  

Women Bear The Brunt Of Coronavirus Job Losses Enlarge this image toggle caption Nam Y. Huh/AP Nam Y. Huh/AP Very briefly, at the end of 2019 and the start of 2020, there were slightly more women on American nonfarm payrolls than men. Sponsor Message Usually, the line bumps around near or just below zero — meaning men's unemployment is usually …

Sheryl Sandberg: Women are burning out more than ever. Employers must do more to help
4 years, 8 months ago

Sheryl Sandberg: Women are burning out more than ever. Employers must do more to help

CNN  

The coronavirus and economic crises have had negative effects on everyone. But a new survey and its high-profile advocate — Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg — suggest women are being hit hardest by the increased pressures of work and home in the midst of this deadly pandemic. “The inequality we’ve always had on the balance of work in the home, which …

Coronavirus recession will hit women harder, experts warn
4 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus recession will hit women harder, experts warn

Al Jazeera  

Crystal Crawford, 34, loves her job as a social worker at a nonprofit private school for children who have experienced homelessness. People who thought they had it all together - right now, we’re struggling to maintain our households by Crystal Crawford, social worker and part-time childcare provider ‘Well-worn path of inequality’ Of course, it is not just healthcare workers who …

Coronavirus has people working from home, which could have long-term benefits for women
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus has people working from home, which could have long-term benefits for women

ABC  

Heather Renton never planned on working from home, let alone starting up her own organisation. Since then, Ms Renton has been working from a home office next to Rebecca's playroom, running Syndromes Without A Name — the organisation she founded to support other parents of children with undiagnosed or rare genetic conditions. "Sometimes I think we're stuck still doing things …

Early coronavirus job losses hitting minorities, women, teens particularly hard
4 years, 9 months ago

Early coronavirus job losses hitting minorities, women, teens particularly hard

CNN  

New York CNN Business — As the economy continues to hemorrhage jobs, it’s becoming apparent that some groups are more at risk of unemployment than others. “They’re working in sectors like hotels, restaurants and retail that are being harder hit.” Minorities are also losing jobs such as custodial services as businesses close or are operating remotely. The catchall labor department …

How the coronavirus widens the gender pay gap (opinion)
4 years, 9 months ago

How the coronavirus widens the gender pay gap (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Scott Torrey is CEO of PayScale, a provider of compensation data and software. Here’s how: According to PayScale’s 2020 Gender Pay Gap Report, women currently make 81 cents for every $1 a man makes. Part of the reason for the uncontrolled gender pay gap is that women are more represented in lower-paying jobs compared to men, who comprise …

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