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Return-to-Office Policies Drive Decline in Working Mothers' Workforce Participation

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petethomas

9mo ago· 1 min readenInsight

Summary

The article discusses how the push for return-to-office policies has disproportionately affected working mothers, with data showing a significant drop in workforce participation among women aged 25-44 with young children. It highlights the lack of government and corporate understanding of unpaid care work and how this gap creates an incomplete economic picture.

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The percentage of women in the workforce aged 25 to 44 with children under five plummeted nearly three percentage points between January and June
Neither the government nor companies know much about the state of unpaid care work
Without that understanding, our picture of the economy is incomplete
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Neither the government nor companies know much about the state of unpaid care work. Without that understanding, our picture of the economy is incomplete.

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