Women have been hit hardest by job losses in
the pandemic. And it may only get worse.
Washington Post,
by
Samantha Schmidt
Original Article
Posted By: poster,
5/9/2020 12:49:18 PM
The last time Americans faced an economic crisis, it was called a "Mancession." As millions of people lost their jobs in the Great Recession, 70 percent were men, many in construction and manufacturing. This time, as job losses linked to the coronavirus pandemic dwarf what the country experienced in the 2007-2009 crisis, the heaviest toll is falling on women. Waitresses, day-care workers, hairstylists, hotel maids and dental hygienists are among the 20.5 million people who watched their jobs vanish in April - the most devastating spike in unemployment since the Great Depression. "I had a good rhythm going. I wasn't rich, I couldn't complain saying I was poor,"
Reply 1 - Posted by:
DVC 5/9/2020 12:53:29 PM (No. 406106)
Yeah, always the leftist claim.
"World ends, women and minorities hit hardest."
I don't buy it.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
LeeBertie 5/9/2020 1:09:04 PM (No. 406128)
Yep, Samantha Schmidt must be a wet-behind-the-ears recent J-School grad who doesn't know her WaPo history. As #1 said, the correct WaPo language is "women, children, and minorities hardest hit". She and her editor BOTH need to go back to their Washington Post Style Book and memorize that chapter if they have any hope of advancement.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 5/9/2020 1:10:06 PM (No. 406130)
Then advocate for them. Stop trying to blame the President. If he didn't ask people to help with the "slowdown" where possible to protect the heath system, you would have called him a monster. He, however, did not ban everything under the sun. Reiterate the best ways to avoid the virus and protect the vulnerable. Call for the governors to lift their crazy, draconian restrictions. Tell them to treat the American business owners, who, in general can adapt and innovate, like adults and set them free. The idiots will always be idiots. "Mother nature" has a way of sorting them out.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Rather Read 5/9/2020 1:15:25 PM (No. 406140)
And what does the state governors deem non-essential? Small businesses like hairdressers, caterers, manicurists, restaurant owners. A lot probably the majority of them are women. It wasn't President Trump's fault that power hungry politicians keep the shackles on long after the curve has been flattened.
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Reject everything that appears in the Washington Post. It's too hard to sift through its propaganda to find any small bits of truth it may contain.
12 people like this.
Samantha the hack
Shut up shill!
Pure propaganda we immediately recognize
Hit pieces and gotcha questions
It’s all they have
No thanks
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I wonder how many women will choose not to return to work.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
spacer 5/9/2020 1:41:18 PM (No. 406167)
We know that this virus is Chinese born. We also know the official Chinese birth control law is one child per household. And we also know the preferred child for extinction is the little girl child. That means the Chinese are responsible for the women losing their jobs.Right Sam?
8 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
earlybird 5/9/2020 1:46:47 PM (No. 406171)
These reporterettes interview a couple of people and then extrapolate that into pathetic articles like this one.
5 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 5/9/2020 2:00:25 PM (No. 406183)
I saw another story today saying LGBTQ communities are being hit the hardest. Every little group will be insisting they need the most sympathy and the mot government aid.
5 people like this.
Reply 11 - Posted by:
stablemoney 5/9/2020 2:18:14 PM (No. 406198)
Everything is always worse and going to get worse, according to WaPo, when there is a Republican in the WH. Actually, things have to get better, and are getting better. Not hard to do, when all you have to do is open, and go back to work. We have learned a lot, and more new technology and realizations are coming. Some things will change, but we will be back in business. That is a given.
3 people like this.
Reply 12 - Posted by:
DaddyO 5/9/2020 2:42:25 PM (No. 406220)
I thought it was no big deal, WaPo..
"But this year, a new coronavirus from China has focused attention on diseases that can sweep through an entire population, rattling the public despite the current magnitude of the threat. Clearly, the flu poses the bigger and more pressing peril; a handful of cases of the new respiratory illness have been reported in the United States, none of them fatal or apparently even life-threatening."
WaPo, Feb 1 2020
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 5/9/2020 3:22:39 PM (No. 406255)
The media creates the pandemic panic and then writes the sob stories to back their agenda. Oh, and it's all bad orange man's fault.
8 people like this.
Reply 14 - Posted by:
edgar 5/9/2020 4:29:12 PM (No. 406306)
What about all of those the became dependent on the government during the Obama/Biden years. No sob stories during those 8 years when millions required government assistant to put food on their tables.
2 people like this.
Reply 15 - Posted by:
droopydog 5/9/2020 4:43:14 PM (No. 406316)
Speaking of gender statistics, 70% of the deaths are male. Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it, Washington Compost.
4 people like this.
Reply 16 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/9/2020 7:02:13 PM (No. 406417)
Dear Samantha and Compost, you have become a parody of yourselves. Just quit.
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