- July 23, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
It’s no secret that the pandemic’s economic toll has fallen disproportionately and overwhelmingly on women, millions of whom have left the job market over the last year and a half. That brings our level of participation in the workforce to its lowest in decades, and as yet, it’s not clear if women will return, or even be able to; historically, women are more likely to be hired when the hiring manager is a woman, and the exodus from the workforce includes managerial workers, too. Fewer women in the position to hire simply means fewer women getting hired.
circa 1936: Seamstresses working on a dress to be worn by Greta Garbo in the MGM film ‘Camille’. … [+] (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
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Since the beginning of this pandemic, and even going further back, this author’s position has been that women’s financial futures depend on entrepreneurship, rather than the selling of our labor, eliminating one of the biggest…
