See U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “The Employment Situation — September 2021,” news release, October 8, 2021, https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm. 2 Labor force participation rates declined by 6.8 percent for Hispanic women and 4.2 percent for Black women between February 2020 and September 2021. Statistics come from current and historical tables A-1, A-2, and A-3 of the BLS Employment Situation report.
See U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, “The Employment Situation — September 2021.” 3 Stefania Albanesi and Jiyeon Kim, “Effects of the COVID-19 Recession on the US Labor Market: Occupation, Family, and Gender,” Journal of Economic Perspectives 35 (Summer 2021): 3–24, https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/jep.35.3.3. This is one reason why female unemployment rose dramatically in comparison to male unemployment during the spring of 2020.