Between February 2020 and now, about 1.1 million women are still missing from the labor force. The U.S. can and must do better by the majority of its citizens: women and kids.
When daycare and schools shut down, it’s a straight up economic calculation in a two-earner family for the lower earner to quit and take care of kids. In a single-parent household there’s no decision at all. Not only are daycare and school workers—overwhelmingly female—out of jobs, so are the women further up the ladder who depended on them in order to go to work.good news for women in the labor market generally. Wages are ticking up, particularly in female-dominated low wage employment.
The private sector is ahead of the government in raising wages that will primarily benefit women workers. Last year marked the first time that the average wage ofhave surpassed the $15 benchmark already. Amazon has paid its workforce at least $15 an hour since 2018, and began offering new hires an average of $18 an hour last September. Costco raised its minimum wage to $17 an hour in October. T-Mobile is paying its 75,000-person workforce at least $20 an hour.
Higher wages are of course welcome news. But as the pandemic recedes in the rearview mirror and jobs come back, we need to look deeper and think longer term about fixes for women that won’t disappear when the next superbug comes along. Create a robust care infrastructure , including high quality affordable childcare and universal preschool, paid family and medical leave, and increased funding for long-term care services.
Until that happens, we will continue to fall behind the rest of the developed world—and, more importantly—miss a once-in-a-century opportunity to better the lives of all.
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