Women, Workforce, and Pandemic Build Back

The new job numbers came out last week and there is some great news for US workers. More than 500,000 jobs were added in October 2021. But, the workforce is still recovering from the 8.4M jobs lost at the height of the pandemic-losses in April 2020.

Women represent 51% of the population but only 47% of the workforce, yet as of October 2021, the number of women who have left the workforce is…