RESILIENT BUT NOT RECOVERED - BLACK WOMEN IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

NATIONAL WOMEN’S LAW CENTER Introduction Since the onset of the COVID-19 hear from Black women across the country about pandemic in March 2020 and the ensuing how they have been faring in the pandemic. [...] The COVID-19 pandemic, which has been women), women who left the workforce at especially destructive for Black communities and some point during the pandemic, women has coincided with a long-overdue consideration in low-paid jobs making $15/hour or less, of racism in the United States—particularly and state oversamples in Arizona, Georgia, anti-Black racism—illuminated the experiences Michigan, an. [...] In 2022, the National Women’s Law Center partnered with polling firm GQR to RESILIENT BUT NOT RECOVERED BLACK WOMEN IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 3 NATIONAL WOMEN’S LAW CENTER Black women have yet to return to pre-pandemic employment levels, and many work in lower quality jobs without benefits. [...] RESILIENT BUT NOT RECOVERED BLACK WOMEN IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC 6 NATIONAL WOMEN’S LAW CENTER The pandemic impacted Black women’s finances, plans, and goals— and many want to In NWLC’s polling, more than one in four Black women work from home (27%) say they are planning to change jobs within the next six months. [...] The pandemic has also prompted changes to life plans: Nearly one in eight Black women (12%) say they delayed or abandoned plans to have children because of the pandemic, and about one in seven (14%) report that More than one in four the pandemic forced them to delay their retirement Black women (28%) say plans.13 About one in four Black women (24%, however, their financial situation describe their.