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Guess what neither candidate talked about tonight?? The way this recession is going to set women (and women of color in particular) back for decades to come: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/there-will-be-no-v-shaped-recovery
In September, about 865,000 women dropped out of the workforce — compared to 216,000 men.
The True Unemployment Rate for women: 30.8%. https://annehelen.substack.com/p/there-will-be-no-v-shaped-recovery
The True Unemployment Rate for women: 30.8%. https://annehelen.substack.com/p/there-will-be-no-v-shaped-recovery
I talked to some of the women who've quit or stepped back from their jobs and the answers are *a lot* to sit with.
"I am just so angry. Most of the time though I just want to cry. I desperately want to return to work. But when? Right now it feels like there is no end in sight."
"I am just so angry. Most of the time though I just want to cry. I desperately want to return to work. But when? Right now it feels like there is no end in sight."
"I feel deeply sad. I know this is what needs to happen right now...But I will have lost at least a year & at 47 that doesn’t feel like a small thing when you are just moving from able to cover the basics to having healthy savings... & a feeling of financial safety"
"We need a cultural shift so the burden of career disruption doesn’t affect women so much more. But as for us, we’re in a queer relationship, and the dynamics are different. My wife makes twice as much money as I do. That was the decider."
None of the women I know who have decided to stay home did so in order to follow traditional gender roles. They do it b/c they can’t support their family on their own income, whereas the husband can. Even when their education, work experience is the same, the husband makes more"
"I feel sort of bewildered by the fact that I’m a bright, competent woman who is very concerned with equity, and that I and a lot of women I know like me are ending up in the same place, agreeing to replicate gender roles we wanted to move away from."
"These are decisions my husband and I made together and they make the most sense. But I also feel the weight of all my lost potential and the lost potential of the women I know." https://annehelen.substack.com/p/there-will-be-no-v-shaped-recovery
I am not usually a "why is no one talking about this" person but there are very few people talking about this (in public spaces) and all of them are women.
Meanwhile, every woman I know in real life has been talking and thinking about this for *months*
Meanwhile, every woman I know in real life has been talking and thinking about this for *months*
Credit to @19thnews, which wrote the defining piece in early August about "the first female recession." I'd also point to this excellent piece by Alissa Quart on what's happening with daycares right now: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/06/babies-child-care-centers-shortage-slots/?fbclid=IwAR3v__1iIkjt-t3kj_S9C2F5yvDqSf9CW-yaPGooNZF3T7UhCfJ1VcG4n2M
