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handmade34

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Wed Apr 15, 2020, 06:20 AM Apr 2020

"Women Fill Most Of The Frontline Jobs" [View all]


while this is a Vermont piece, I suspect that this is a Nationwide scenario...


https://www.caledonianrecord.com/opinion/columns/jack-hoffman-women-fill-most-of-the-frontline-jobs/article_408c2a60-15e8-597c-a2e9-dec3019c1e87.html#utm_source=caledonianrecord.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletters%2Fheadlines%2F%3F-dc%3D1586865604&utm_medium=email&utm_content=headline


More than 72,000 Vermonters worked in jobs that are now on the frontlines of the coronavirus crisis, providing goods and services that many of the rest of us need as we shelter in place.

Two out of three of these workers were women. Nearly one in three (30 percent) had a child living at home.

Nearly half of Vermont workers are female (49.2 percent). But in the frontline jobs, 66 percent were women. Three out of four jobs in health care were held by women.
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