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What’s ahead for working women?

Pandemic forever changed workplace cultures for women — both positively and negatively
By: Richard Pratt|August 30, 2021
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    The details vary slightly, but the numbers don’t lie.

    Politico reported that as of late July, 1.8 million women had left the workforce nationwide since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

    From a Fortune article in January: “Women accounted for all of U.S. job losses in December (2020), dramatically underscoring the pandemic’s unrelentingly disastrous impact on working women … Actually, it’s even worse than that. Technically, women accounted for more…

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