For the First Time in Decades, This Recession Is a ‘Shecession’

For the First Time in Decades, This Recession Is a ‘Shecession’

John Locher/Associated Press “We should go ahead and call this a ‘shecession.’”

— C. Nicole Mason, president and chief executive of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research

[In Her Words is available as a newsletter. Sign up here to get it delivered to your inbox .] The unemployment numbers released on Friday confirmed what we had all anticipated: The economic crisis brought on by the coronavirus pandemic is staggering, or as one research analyst at Bank of America put it to The Times, “literally off the charts.” The scale of the crisis is unlike anything since the Great […]

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