The employment shock from the coronavirus has hit women disproportionately hard
Women usually fare better than men during an economic downturn. Not this time.
Growth in service professions has allowed women to overtake men as a proportion of the U.S. labor force. But it has also made them more vulnerable to job losses, because sectors with more women, such as education, leisure and hospitality, have been hardest hit by social-distancing measures.
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