Women accounted for 55% of the more than 20 million jobs lost last month.
While Friday’s jobs report was devastating across the board, with another 20.5 million jobs wiped away in April as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, a demographic breakdown of the unemployment numbers reveals that the hardest-hit workers were women, particularly women of color.
Related: ‘The floor was taken out from under them’: April’s massive job losses are hitting these Americans more than others What’s more, a 2014 article published in the Review of Radical Political Economics journal studied the gender gap during the 2008 downturn under the title, “He-cession? She-cession? The Gendered Impact of the Great Recession in the United States.”
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