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The disruption to childcare options and in-person schooling threatens gains in women’s integration and representation in the economy, creating career consequences that may persist. When women are sidelined or unable to contribute fully, the nation’s economic strength declines and employers lose critical talent. 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The resulting sidelining reduces the economic strength of the nation and deprives employers of a key competitive resource.","Answer",{"name":115,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":116},"What actions are recommended for business leaders to support women during and after COVID-19?",{"text":117,"@type":113},"They should expand flexible work options, improve access to care through subsidies or stipends and related leave support, close pay equity gaps, help women advance through sponsorship and mentoring, and adopt practices that prioritize and reward progress toward gender parity.",{"name":119,"@type":110,"acceptedAnswer":120},"What policy recommendations are suggested to stabilize recovery and expand women’s access to support?",{"text":121,"@type":113},"Policymakers should create a child care stabilization fund, fund safe in-person learning, extend temporary paid-leave programs, increase income supports, provide block grants for eviction and foreclosure prevention, and support training programs via business-informed tax credits and direct assistance.","https://schema.org",{"og:url":83,"og:type":124,"og:title":65,"og:site_name":95,"og:description":67},"article",{"robots":126,"canonical":83},"index,follow",{"doc_id":128,"site_id":62},583661,1792122437,{"code":4,"msg":5,"data":131},{"doc_id":128,"user_id":132,"nickname":92,"user_avatar":133,"doc_module":4,"category_id":34,"category_name":35,"doc_title":65,"doc_description":67,"doc_content":134,"file_id":135,"file_url":136,"file_type":137,"file_size":138,"view_count":8,"is_deleted":4,"is_public":8,"is_downloadable":8,"audit_status":8,"page_count":139,"language":140,"language_code":63,"site_id":62,"html_lang":63,"table_of_contents":141,"faqs":142,"seo_title":143,"seo_description":67,"update_tm":144,"read_time":145},962084931830,"https://ap-avatar.wpscdn.com/davatar_a8503ba1806abce46bf441b54a3ca4cd","SOLUTIONS BRIEF  \nTHE PUBLIC POLICY CENTER OF  \nTHE CONFERENCE BOARD  \nSUSTAINING CAPITALISM  \nA series focused on nonpartisan reasoned solutions in the nation’s interest to the central challenges we face in order to provide prosperity for all Americans.  \nCOVID-19’s Impact on Women in the Workplace:  \nAvoiding a Major Setback  \nThe disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on industries where women are heavily concentrated combined with the virus’s debilitating impact on child care options and in-person schooling threatens progress in the integration and representation of women in the US economy. Even if the reversal proves temporary, as is likely, the career consequences of the pandemic for individual women could have long-lasting effects and slow future progress.1 When talented workers sit on the sidelines or are prevented from fully contributing to the workforce, those workers are not the only ones affected. The economic strength of the entire nation suffers for the duration of those workers’ entire careers, and employers miss out on an important competitive resource. Thus, the impact of COVID-19 on women is a first-order national concern.  \nWomen are a vital part of the American labor force, both as nearly half of workers, and, as the primary facilitators of work by others through formal and informal caretaking roles.2 Even if progress in more fully integrating women into all aspects and levels of the economy has, at times, been slow, it has also been one of the most important sources of strength for the American economy over the past half century.3 The continued lowering of barriers and further economic integration of women into all fields and roles in proportion to their talents remains one of the surest paths to increasing the size, skill, and contributions to innovation of the American workforce.4  \nRecommendations  \nINSIGHTS FOR WHAT’S AHEAD  \nRecommendations for Business Leaders and Policy Makers to Reverse the Impact of COVID-19 on  \nWomen in the Economy Business leaders should:  \n• Increase the availability, and normalize the use, of flexible work options, such as remote work and flexible hours, including evaluating the performance of workers who utilize them on an equal footing with employees who don’t.  \n• Improve access to care options, by offering working parents subsidies or stipends to meet the increased need or costs for care where care is available—or additional temporary leave benefits where it is not. While liability issues and regulatory burdens may make it more difficult in the short term, employers may want to investigate more direct approaches to child care provisions in the long run as part of a parent-friendly approach to supporting the workforce.  \n• Work to close the gap in pay equity, including through an examination of compensation policies and efforts to correct existing deficiencies when women are found to be systematically underpaid relative to their male counterparts for fundamentally similar work.  \n• Help women candidates advance into leadership roles, including onto corporate boards, through sponsorship, mentoring, and training efforts to help all midcareer women reach potential leadershipfeeder positions.  \n• Adopt existing best practices for supporting and advancing women into leadership roles,  \nincluding prioritizing, disclosing, and rewarding efforts to reach gender parity; encouraging orincentivizing executives to participate in sponsorship and inclusion efforts; and adopting recruiting and promotion practices so that women, and especially mothers, make progress toward higher rungs of leadership.  \nPolicymakers should:  \n• Create a new child care stabilization fund to speed economic recovery and ensure that women have widespread access to safe, high-quality child care.  \n• Communicate clarity on the actions necessary to facilitate safe, in-person learning and provide funding to schools to offset the additional costs of safe operation during the pandemic.  \n• Extend temporary paid-leave p","cbCaijlhhbpbZooU","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaijlhhbpbZooU","pdf",893971,13,"English","# Recommendations\n## Recommendations for Business Leaders and Policy Makers to Reverse the Impact of COVID-19 on Women in the Economy\n### Business leaders should\n### Policymakers should\n# The impact of COVID-19\n# Building on advocacy for women’s advancement","[{\"question\":\"Why does COVID-19 pose a first-order national concern for women in the workplace?\",\"answer\":\"COVID-19’s effects fall most heavily on industries where women are concentrated and on childcare and schooling options. The resulting sidelining reduces the economic strength of the nation and deprives employers of a key competitive resource.\"},{\"question\":\"What actions are recommended for business leaders to support women during and after COVID-19?\",\"answer\":\"They should expand flexible work options, improve access to care through subsidies or stipends and related leave support, close pay equity gaps, help women advance through sponsorship and mentoring, and adopt practices that prioritize and reward progress toward gender parity.\"},{\"question\":\"What policy recommendations are suggested to stabilize recovery and expand women’s access to support?\",\"answer\":\"Policymakers should create a child care stabilization fund, fund safe in-person learning, extend temporary paid-leave programs, increase income supports, provide block grants for eviction and foreclosure prevention, and support training programs via business-informed tax credits and direct assistance.\"}]","COVID-19’s Impact on Women in the Workplace: Avoiding a Major Setback | PDF",1792048005,33]