The Pandemic shows why women should Lean OUT

The Covid-19 pandemic has been rough on women.

Women have had to figure out how to balance both educating their children with distance learning while still doing their jobs from home. (If they are even lucky enough to have a job where they can work from home)

Many women have had to drop out of the workforce altogether as they take on full-time childcare responsibilities. Women who do not have the privilege of “work from home jobs” have had to go into work as “essential workers” that pay meager wages despite the health hazards of the pandemic.

Women dominate the service and hospitality industries. Many of those jobs are gone due to shutdowns and business closures.

There were still 4.5 million fewer women employed in October than there were a year ago, compared with 4.1 million men.

And according to the Census Bureau, a third of the working women 25 to 44 years old who are unemployed said the reason was child care demands. Only 12 percent of unemployed men cited those demands. (Source New York Times)

The above statistics do not capture the toll that trying to “balance it all” or not being able to support a family has on mental, emotional, and physical health. A disturbing trend among Japanese women points to a potential worldwide crisis that…