
Will Women’s Independence be a Silent Victim of the Pandemic?
Guest Editor: Ashley Kaye
February 9, 2021 9:00am
The UN Women Deputy Executive Director Anita Bhatia stated, “Everything [women have] worked for, that has taken 25 years, could be lost in a year.” The relentless nature of COVID-19 has put an alarming amount of people out of work, and the majority of the unemployed workforce are women. Of the more than one million workers ages 20 and over who left the workforce as of September 2020, 85.6% were women. Leading causes as to why women are leaving…