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Kate Barron

Blog entries by Kate Barron

What’s the REAL story? Are Women Leaving the Workforce?

Jul 22, 2008

Fewer Women at Work

It seems as though every day I read an article about Women in the workforce (a topic near and dear to my heart, since I am a woman and partly in the workforce) Today is no exception. An article in today’s New York Times argues that Women are leaving the workforce, but this time it is because of the economy. A recently completed study by Joint Economic Committee of Congress indicates that women are leaving the workforce, either temporarily or permanently, citing downturns, layoffs, outsourcing, stagnant wages or the discouraging prospect of an outright pay cut. And they are responding as men have, by dropping out or disappearing for a while.

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