Gender and Employment in the COVID-19 Recession: Evidence on “She-cessions”

Gender and Employment in the COVID-19 Recession: Evidence on “She-cessions”
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Volume/Issue: Volume 2021 Issue 095
Publication date: March 2021
ISBN: 9781513575926
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Labor , Economics- Macroeconomics , Economics / General , International - Economics , Gender Studies , COVID-19 recession , Employment , Gender , sectoral employment , labor force participation contribution , gender gap change , labor market change , sectoral workforce composition , Employment rate , Women , Gender inequality , Labor markets , Global

Summary

Early evidence on the pandemic’s effects pointed to women’s employment falling disproportionately, leading observers to call a “she-cession.” This paper documents the extent and persistence of this phenomenon in a quarterly sample of 38 advanced and emerging market economies. We show that there is a large degree of heterogeneity across countries, with over half to two-thirds exhibiting larger declines in women’s than men’s employment rates. These gender differences in COVID-19’s effects are typically short-lived, lasting only a quarter or two on average. We also show that she-cessions are strongly related to COVID-19’s impacts on gender shares in employment within sectors.