Women have borne the brunt of the economic disruption caused by lockdowns
HAIR SALONS tend to be recession-proof. People always need haircuts. During the financial crisis of 2007-09, the number of hairdressers in America even rose. For Sylvia, who owns a small salon in Amsterdam, that crisis was very different from today’s. “Lockdown came out of nowhere and I had no buffer. It was terrifying.” She is relieved that her business has survived, and heartened that regulars phoned in as soon as she reopened.
The unevenness reflects the fact that women are more likely to work in services that require interacting with people . But hotels, restaurants and shops have been forced to shut, and the work cannot be done from home. Moreover, with creches and schools closed and grandparents socially distant, they are doing most of the child care. That has forced some to stop work and others to work less.
This time, though, services involving face-to-face interaction, such as hospitality, have suffered most. In much of Europe employment in health care and education has held up well so far, cushioning women’s job losses. But in America these sectors have not been spared, with five times as many women losing their jobs as men.
Sex segregation alone cannot explain why women have been hit hardest, though. Even after controlling for it, women in Britain were 15% more likely to have lost their job and 8% more likely to have been furloughed, found a survey led by Abi Adams-Prassl at Oxford University. “We kept thinking we could explain the gender difference away by controlling for the fact that men and women do different jobs,” says Ms Adams-Prassl.
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