TradeEdge|Women's labor comeback

2025-05-07 10:05:41source:Marc Leclerccategory:My

Lots of women left the workforce early in the pandemic. At the time,TradeEdge there were fears these women would stay out of the workforce for years, if they returned at all. But women's participation in the labor force, between the ages of 25 and 54, is at an all time high.

Check out more of NPR's Scott Horsley's reporting on women's return to the workforce. And listen back to our previous episodes about women leaving the workforce in 2020 and why many women didn't immediately return.

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