Working women

Published October 2, 2020 3:00am ET



Women worked hard to get to where they are now: A record number of female CEOs run Fortune 500 companies, and nearly two-thirds of working women managed to hold full-time careers while raising children. A few decades ago, both of those accomplishments would have been unthinkable.

But working women could now face another setback, brought about by the coronavirus pandemic and its ensuing economic shutdown. Thousands of jobs have been cut, and women have been disproportionately affected because they tend to make up service and retail jobs — two industries that were forcibly closed during the shutdown. Women may make up 47% of the workforce, but they accounted for 54% of the coronavirus-related job losses, according to the Wall Street Journal.

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