Pandemic job losses were fairly evenly split between men and women, but recovery is a different story.
TORONTO — The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed women’s participation in the labour force down to its lowest level in three decades and rebounding won’t be easy, says a new study from the Royal Bank of Canada.
“In March in April, it was kind of evenly split between men and women with both having about 1.5 million , but it’s in the reopening where we have started to see a divergence,” Desjardins said. Employment among women with toddlers or school-aged children fell seven per cent between February and May, compared with a four per cent decrease for fathers of children the same age.
In the downturn due to the financial crisis, the unemployment rate for men was more than 2.5 per cent higher than that of women and when the recovery came women’s participation in the labour force rebounded to its highest level as the participation of men was declining.
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