Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/238653 
Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 963
Publisher: 
Levy Economics Institute of Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Abstract: 
The COVID-19 pandemic seemingly appeared out of nowhere but changed nearly everything. As the pandemic unfolded, industries deemed nonessential were leveled. Many occupations in these industries are low-wage, and women constitute a greater share of America's low-wage labor force than men. Even as some workers were able to do their jobs from their homes, a high proportion of "essential workers" were African American, other people of color, women, and an intersection of these groups - women of color. The goal of this paper is to closely examine the contours, depth, and causes of COVID-19's impact on Black women's employment in the United States through the lenses of both feminist economic theory and stratification economics.
Subjects: 
Occupational Segregation
Racial Discrimination
Gender Discrimination
COVID-19
JEL: 
J15
J16
J21
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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