The economic impact of the pandemic on women

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

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Talk Show, News, Npr, Daily, On Point

4.3 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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A new word was coined to describe the economy in the fall of 2020: She-cession. Neat, but maybe too convenient. Claudia Goldin joins Meghna Chakrabarti.

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0:18.9	Of the many seismic changes brought by the COVID pandemic,
0:23.2	there was one that seemed irrefutable.
0:25.9	As cumulative job losses soared above 20 million,
0:29.8	in 2020, there seemed no doubt that one group
0:33.5	was falling farthest and fastest
0:36.2	into the pandemic's economic crater.
0:38.7	Some experts are calling this the she session
0:41.5	referring to the disproportionate impact
0:43.6	the pandemic is having on women and their careers.
0:48.4	Our series on the quote unquote she session,
0:51.9	how the recession is impacting women specifically.
0:56.0	In January 2020, women outnumbered men
0:59.5	in the US workforce.
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