What does the future hold? Covid, women and the US economy

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 March 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

From women in senior management positions, to women-owned start-ups, to low income families, Covid poses difficult questions about how to adapt to an uncertain future. Nada Tawfik explores some of the strategies being adopted by women in the US economy to adjust to a vastly changed economic landscape.

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0:00.0	The United States has just passed its one year anniversary of COVID-19 shutdowns.
0:08.4	Tonight the U.S. reaches a milestone in the race to vaccinate America.
0:13.8	As states begin to reopen, thoughts are turning to the future.
0:17.6	I don't believe it will be easy
0:19.8	that if we just snap back to the way we worked before, we're not going to make it.
0:24.0	But how different will the workplace be for women?
0:28.0	This has really laid bare this tremendous problem at the heart of our economy.
0:33.0	Could the crisis even spark changes in the U.S. economy to power equal opportunity?
0:39.0	Women are kind of leading the charge of reimagining what our places.
0:45.0	I'm Netta Tofik, and this is episode two of the empty desk, COVID, women, and the U.S. Economy on the BBC World Service.
0:56.0	Hi, Mama, how are you?
1:00.0	I'm good.
1:01.0	Good.
1:02.0	Okay, let me scam your temperature. In a world made smaller by
1:06.3	globalization, COVID underscored just how important local communities are to our lives.
1:14.0	My daughter loves to dance and was more than bummed out when her live recital was cancelled
1:20.7	and classes moved on to Zoom last year. But now she's back at the studio
1:24.8	alongside her friends with precautions and it's made all the difference.
1:31.1	Switch the left,
1:32.9	switch the right, circle your head to the right.
1:36.3	If Susie the owner hadn't quickly adapted and reopened her doors,
1:40.1	it would have been a major loss to our town center, both culturally and economically.
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