According to a National Women’s Law Center analysis, 27 times more men than women joined the labor force at the beginning of this year.
“America is back to work,” President Biden said in a speech at the White House on Friday. “America’s job machine is going stronger than ever.”, the report is far less rosy when gains are separated out by gender.Early into the third year of the pandemic, male workers regained all the jobs they had lost since February 2020. But the same could not be said of women: Since February 2020, 1.1 million women who left the labor force have yet to return.
“really demonstrated the need to address our caregiving infrastructure, which has been a huge drag on women’s recovery.”According to NWLC’s analysis, men gained nearly 60 percent of the jobs added in January. Put another way, 27 times more men than women joined the labor force at the beginning of this year.Although women gained 188,000 jobs in January, to recoup all the jobs lost since the start of the pandemic, they would need to keep gaining jobs at this rate through the end of October.
With women shouldering the burdens of domestic life, men were expected to “focus entirely on work,” Kaufman said. And that “ideal worker image” — the person who puts in face time with managers and long hours at their desk — has been hard to shake, even as the “Until January, women hadn’t seen such low labor force participation since the late 1980s or early ’90s, Martin said.“We’re inching back,” she said of January’s job gains.