“America’s job machine is going stronger than ever,” President Biden said in a speech at the White House on Friday, February 4, 2022, after what was considered a very strong January...
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“America’s job machine is going stronger than ever,” President Biden said in a speech at the White House on Friday, February 4, 2022, after what was considered a very strong January jobs report. “America is back to work.”
For America’s men, that’s true. But women have yet to be propelled back into the workforce by the American job machine. And the disparities are striking.
The January 2022 jobs report found that 275,000 women left the workforce last month, leaving the women’s workplace participation rate at 57%—a rate that prepandemic hadn’t been seen since 1988, according to Fortune. By comparison, Axios reports, the men’s labor force participation rate was up to 70% in January.
