Women continue to exit the workforce

Though the unemployment rate for women fell slightly in June to 3.7%, those numbers don’t tell the entire story because women still participate in the labor force at much lower rates than men. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, in its June jobs report, shows that only 56.5% of adult women were in the labor force, compared with 68.1% of men. Last month, the National Women’s Law Center noted that more than 300,000 women have left the workforce this year. “The numbers reflect the Trump administration’s pronatalist agenda to push women out of the workforce and return to a time of strict gender roles,” says Jasmine Tucker, vice president of research at NWLC. “We’re seeing the consequences play out in the data.”