The second half of 2019 was the first time outside a major recession in which women outnumbered men in paid employment in the United States.31 A year later, 2020 was the first recession in which women’s job losses and unemployment outnumbered men’s.32 As the mainstays of manual service labor, Latina women suffered most. Their unemployment rate soared above 20 percent. In Europe too, women workers in the bottom quintile of the income distribution suffered the largest loss of employment.
