May 28 NPR Marketplace: COVID-19 Job losses indicate we are in a “she-cession”

Labor market coronavirus gender-gap media coverage on NPR’s Marketplace

Reporting by Nancy Marshall-Genzer.

The Labor Department said Thursday that another 2.1 million people filed for unemployment last week. And most of the workers who lost their jobs last month were women — 55%, according to outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

Some new jobs are being created right now, according to Andrew Challenger of Challenger, Gray & Christmas.

“The jobs that are being added tend to be on the back end — on the supply chain, logistics, in the warehouses,” he said.

But that work is mainly done by men.