How the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted women's jobs & the workforce gender equality gap

February 23, 2021: Nearly 3 million American women have left the workforce directly because of the pandemic -- and the problem is far from over because the latest government job numbers show women's participation in the workforce dropped in January while men's stayed flat. “It's what they've called a pivotal point where if we don't change the trajectory we are at risk for losing the gains that have been made in gender equality over the past, I would say, three decades,” says Case Western Reserve Professor Diana Bilimoria. She describes this impact of the last 12 months as one that will last for generations. The United Nations estimates the economic setbacks will push 47 million women worldwide into extreme poverty. And according to Accenture, the gender gap in the workplace pre-COVID was 2120: 100 years from now. “But based on the pandemic, this was all pre-COVID. So based on the pandemic and the sort of the retro effects that are carrying forward, now they're estimating with the current trend it will be 2171.” Read more: https://www.wkyc.com/article/life/mom...