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March 29, 2021

Bust gender bias and balance work at home

  • The pandemic has left a generation of career-driven women facing many of the same obstacles that kept previous generations of women underpaid or out of the workforce.
    • By SARA RATHNER
    NerdWallet

    No matter how modern opposite-sex couples can be in their views on equality, old habits die hard. The COVID-19 pandemic has made this abundantly clear to parents who already struggled to find balance.

    According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, mothers and fathers both left the workforce earlier in the pandemic in April 2020, but nearly all fathers eventually returned to work, while many mothers stayed home. And a paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research found that recessions typically lead to a gender wage gap growth of 2 percentage points, but a recession caused by a pandemic grows the gap by 5 percentage points.


     
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