Hard Work Is Not Enough - WOMEN IN LOW-PAID JOBS - JULY 2023

´ For example, the shares of Latinas and Native women in the low-paid workforce are roughly double their respective shares in the work- force overall, and Black women’s share of the low-paid workforce is nearly 1.5 times larger than their share of the overall workforce. [...] This disparity is stark for the roughly one in four people in the United States living with a disability,8 who faced an unemployment rate that was nearly twice that of the workforce overall and who participated in the labor force at less than half the rate of the total population in 2021.9 While the recent increase in the availability of remote work has made it easier for some disabled people to w. [...] WOMEN IN LOW-PAID JOBS | 11 ´ Nearly half of women in the low-paid workforce (46.4%) work full time, and close to two in five (37.3%) work full time, year-round.19 ¡ More than half of women in low-paid jobs (53.6%), however, work part time,20 compared to 26.6% of women in the workforce overall. [...] Over half of mothers in low-paid jobs (52.4%) had household incomes below twice the poverty line in 2021, compared to 43.0% of fathers in the low-paid workforce, 23.9% of mothers in the workforce overall, and 19.1% of fathers in the workforce overall. [...] Specifically, fast food cooks in the NOWES are part of “cooks” in CPS Table 11; shampooers in the NOWES are included in “other personal appearance workers” in CPS Table 11; baggage porters and bellhops in the NOWES are identified as “baggage porters, bellhops, and concierges” in CPS Table 11; automotive and watercraft service attendants in the NOWES are “transportation service attendants” in CPS T.