Things are getting a little better for women in the job market.

We're back with breaking news from the Labor Department and a big number for the month of March.

The government's latest jobs report out earlier this month was big.

The U.S. adding 916,000 jobs in the United States.

Where those jobs were added is good news for women.

Hiring is ramping up at bars and restaurants which employ a lot of women and of course so do schools.

I think with schools reopening you see more disproportionately women who are employed in the sectors.

That's White House economist Cecilia Rouse.

And it also is allowing women to start to think about participating in labor force again.

But the jobs market is still months and months away from looking anything like it did pre-pandemic.

And even then...

Mother's already were at the breaking point in the United States. I mean we already had a chalkier system that was basically a rude goldburn machine.

Joan Williams is the director of the Center for Work Life Law at the University of California Hastings.

Like a lot of people who study women in the workplace. She says getting things back to normal just isn't enough for mothers and for all women.

You know just as we don't expect workers to get to work without physical infrastructure, bridges and roads.

We can't expect workers to get to work without a care infrastructure.

A care infrastructure.

Consider this. In less than one year working women have lost labor force gains that took three decades to accumulate.

President Biden wants to build back better. Well we'll talk to the women in his administration trying to do just that by redefining what infrastructure means.

From NPR I'm Elsa Chang. It's Monday, April 12th.

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