Women might not return for months
"Daycares are still closed and schools are still closed, especially during the summertime. So I don't expect to see a change until the third or fourth quarter of the year when schools are slated to be open, the fourth quarter really," Mason said.There were 74.5 million women aged 20 and over part of the labor force in February 2020. This dropped to 70.9 million in April 2020 and has since gone up to around 72.9 million, still down by 1.6 million from before the pandemic.
Daniel Zhao, senior economist at Glassdoor, told Insider he hopes more parents will be able to return to the labor force once school is back in the fall, but it's unclear by just how much. One big concern is the impact that working through the pandemic had on mothers. Heggeness is worried about
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