Are we watching a whole generation of women fall behind economically, thanks to COVID? The numbers from September - when over 800,000 women left the workforce - certainly paint a grim picture. Kate Bahn, economist and Director of Labor Market Policy at the Washington Center for Equitable Growth joins us to discuss how women were doing before COVID, how COVID has shifted the landscape, and what we can do about it now.
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