How Biden’s Build Back Better Can Help Get Women Back to Work
Four policy proposals in the bill that would lift women’s earnings and labor force participation.
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Women in the U.S. have been among those hardest hit economically by the Covid-19 pandemic, knocked out of the workforce by the double whammy of a child care crisis and the pandemic recession.
President Joe Biden’s roughly $2 trillion tax and spending bill, which could face a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives this week, looks to address some of the major challenges that have pushed the female labor force participation rate to lows not seen in decades.