, Columnist
Why Are Some Stats Too ‘Girly’ for the BLS?
Neither the government nor companies know much about the state of unpaid care work. Without that understanding, our picture of the economy is incomplete.
Let’s get girly.
Photographer: Sean Gallup/Getty Images EuropeWhen companies started to push employees back to the office, many of us warned that mothers would be pushed out of the job market.
That prediction is becoming reality: The percentage of women in the workforce aged 25 to 44 with children under five plummeted nearly three percentage points between January and June before slightly rebounding in July.