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Why So Many Women Are Quitting the Workforce

https://time.com/7306896/women-leaving-workforce/

6•littlexsparkee•2h ago

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littlexsparkee•2h ago

https://archive.ph/egxbp

TLDR: RTO & lack of flexibility, fewer federal dollars for childcare, childcare labor force issues due to immigration enforcement

DaveZale•1h ago

and extreme wealth in the hands of a few. You can look it up easily, the Federal Reserve has all the numbers

here is one table

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...

If you are in the bottom 50% it's like being in the bottom caste of India

DaveZale•1h ago

ummm because a tiny sliver of the population sequesters half the wealth?

Hey, things have been declining steadily for working class Americans for 60 years now.

AI will make it worse.

DaveZale•1h ago

it is very clear that the OpenhypeAI folks are out in force here.

Buh bye! What a hit squad. Money does strange things to people

techpineapple•1h ago

It’s a stark number: 212,000. That’s how many women ages 20 and over have left the workforce since January, according to the most recent jobs numbers released Aug. 1 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (By contrast, 44,000 men have entered the workforce since January.)

  The use of “entered” and “left” is confusing to me, are they comparing apples and oranges or net job gains and losses.  Presumably some women entered the workforce during this time and some men left right?

yvan-eht-nioj•1h ago

As a wage earner, this delights me.

The rise of the dual income household led to the rise of the dual income mortgage, which has been catastrophic for housing affordability.