For women promised more, a year that “shattered our reality”

Mar 10, 2021 13 min

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Since the start of the pandemic, more than 2.3 million women have left the workforce. In January, women’s participation in the labor force hit its lowest level since 1988. In the latest episode of a special series, Shumita Basu talks with Jen Gann, features editor at New York Magazine’s the Cut, about the toll the pandemic has taken on women.

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