Prime-age women are going above and beyond in the labor market recovery | Brookings
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As of the most recent jobs report, prime-age women had a labor force participation rate of 77.8 percent. we find that those who have contributed most to the rebound in overall labor force participation in April and May of 2023, three years after the nadir of pandemic-era participation, are in fact p
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- As of the most recent jobs report, prime-age women had a labor force participation rate of 77.8 percent.
- we find that those who have contributed most to the rebound in overall labor force participation in April and May of 2023, three years after the nadir of pandemic-era participation, are in fact prime-age women
- , women whose youngest child is under the age of five are powering the pack’s upward trajectory.
- Participation rates of women whose youngest child is under 5 have been relatively flat since 2008, though their participation started to pick up too in the mid-2010s.
- Since then, the participation rate of women with young children (70.4 percent) has exceeded its pre-pandemic peak by more than 1.4 percentage points and has seen the most rapid growth.
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