Women Account for 100% of Jobs Lost at the End of 2020, with Black and Brown Women Bearing the Brunt of Pandemic Job Losses.

WNYC News | Feb 2, 2021

On January 20th, the Inauguration in Washington signaled great progress for women - especially Black women and Latinas who have traditionally lagged behind men and white women in every marker of success, including wealth and education.
Sonya Sotomayor, the first Latina Supreme Court Justice, administered the oath of office to Kamala Harris, America’s first female vice-president, who is also Black and South Asian.

But figures released one week earlier by the U. S. Department of Labor told a very different story -- about the thousands of Black and brown women whose lives have been upended by the pandemic.

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