This means women have also gained more clout in unions and across the labor market as a whole.” Hotel workers' fight for better pay and benefits
“This is remarkable, given evidence that the 2020 recession initially widened the labor force participation gap by gender and by parental status,” the Brookings report says. Those numbers crossed an important threshold in August, when that age bracket of women had a labor force participation rate of 77.8 percent-an all-time high.