Nearly 2 Million Fewer Women in Labor Force

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Deb Boelkes, award-winning author of Women on Top: What's Keeping You from Executive Leadership (Business World Rising, 2021), said women are also more likely than men to care for older, disabled or ill family members.

"In many families, the lowest-wage-earning spouse chose to voluntarily resign to care for their at-home children or other family members," Boelkes said. "Many women found juggling business responsibilities with homeschooling, child care and elder care simply wasn't worth the effort or the income to justify staying in the job."

"As the pandemic went on, businesses barely able to hang on had little choice but to cut staff," Boelkes said. "Some women volunteered for layoffs in exchange for collecting unemployment. Many were paid more on unemployment, thanks to federal stimulus dollars."

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