Fallout over Omicron variant drives more women out of the workforce

Fallout over Omicron variant drives more women out of the workforce

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As Omicron threatens to shutter schools and close businesses once again, economists fear the latest Covid variant could set working women – already reeling from the first wave of the pandemic – to a point from which it could take years to recover. According to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics monthly job report, the women’s work force participation rate in December was 57.8 percent, a rate that hasn’t been that low since 1991. Working women have been disproportionately impacted by…

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