In April, it was believed that women were going to be hit hardest by the layoffs resulting from circumstances related to covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. At the time, the hospitality industry, restaurants, and retail stores were being most heavily impacted by coronavirus related closures, a reality that has only continued to proliferate since. Consequently, those industries, in addition to other service-related fields, and education, have been those most plagued by layoffs, the majority of which have impacted women, confirming the predictions from April.\n
, this heightened presence in the workforce, in addition to much of the work happening in service-related industries, has also made them more vulnerable to layoffs.
In the last two weeks of March, 8.7 million Americans filed new unemployment claims and as of April, the unemployment rate lept to 14.7% from 4.4%, with the rate being 16.2% among women to men’s 13.5%., during a typical recession married women who haven’t been working have traditionally entered the workforce to supplement their husband’s loss of income, given that men have been more greatly impacted by recessions past. Today, that is no longer the case.
As with gender inequality and the pay gap, women of color have found themselves disproportionally impacted by the current circumstances. Black women 20 and over are currently unemployed at a rate of 16.4%, while for Hispanic women the rate is 20.2%. White women’s unemployment rate is at 15%.
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