All of the 140,000 jobs lost in December belonged to women, according to a new analysis of Labor Department statistics by the National Women’s Law Center. Women lost a total of 5 million jobs in all of 2020.
Here & Now‘s Callum Borchers speaks with Roben Farzad, host of public radio’s “Full Disclosure,” about what this year’s job losses could mean for women’s standing in the workforce.
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