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Women have been most impacted by COVID-19, but there’s help – and hope

Melissa Karns

By Melissa Karns, WE CAN


In an instant, working moms were stationed at home, meeting the demands of daily deadlines while juggling children in between Zoom sessions. Stay-at-home moms became teachers as schools were shuttered and e-learning became the norm. Women without children, too, experienced exclusion from everyday networking opportunities. And unemployed women struggled to make ends meet during a time when even entry-level positions vanished as stores and restaurants closed or reduced hours.


There’s little doubt women experienced the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic perhaps more than any other demographic. Now, women grapple with the aftereffects; namely, the majority of jobs lost during the pandemic were held by women.


According to the National Women’s Law Center, the COVID-19 pandemic has created a “she-cession” — an economic downturn in which job and income losses are affecting women more than men. The she-cession has further widened longstanding gender and racial inequities.




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