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Amy, so what do we know about how the pandemic has been affecting women's careers?

Can you give me a little bit of a recap?

Sure.

So we talked a lot about this in the last season in particular right as the

pandemic hit that many women lost jobs in fact at a greater rate than men were

losing jobs.

Yep.

And we also know that women are doing a disproportionate share of the work at home.

They're working two shifts.

They're doing their jobs, the jobs they do to earn money and then they are taking care of the kids and they're cleaning the house and they're making dinner

Let's not forget the women whose promotions and raises have been put on hold because companies

either have hiring freezes or not giving bonuses this year.

To me, the most shocking thing I heard in the last week

was that something like 20% of women are considering hitting pause on their careers because of all this.

That's right, one in four women, according to the most recent report from McKinsey and lean in

org are considering leaving the workforce or down shifting yeah and we know

because of the Labor Department statistics that came out last week that women are leaving the workforce

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