How Much Will the Pandemic Cost Women?

摘要

ONLY ABOUT 35 TO 40 PERCENT OF THE MONEY THAT A TYPICAL WOMAN MAY LOSE over her lifetime due to being out of work during the pandemic comes from the current income she is missing out on. The rest is due to the loss of some future earnings (since women who interrupt their careers usually make less when they return to work) and also to reductions in their retirement savings and Social Security benefits. As these projections show, the longer a woman is out of work, the greater the financial damage is likely to be.