Mothers Cutting Back and Dropping Out of the Workforce Face Long-Term Consequences

Mothers Cutting Back and Dropping Out of the Workforce Face Long-Term Consequences

As women leave the workforce and scale back due to COVID-19 in greater and greater numbers, the potential consequences are wide-ranging. A decrease in the number of women in the labor force and in women’s hours could lead to a lack of women in senior positions, to women being passed over for promotions and raises and to large numbers of women never re-entering the workforce at all.