Greater job losses. Since the start of the pandemic, women have suffered greater job losses than men -- a pattern that has continued into 2022.
The Pew Research Center reported in June 2020 that 11.5 million women, compared to 9 million men, lost their jobs due to COVID-19 -- a reversal of historical trends with economic recessions.1Higher overall stress. Women also took a harder hit to their wellbeing: Globally, women report higher rates of stress, sadness and worry than men -- and they're more likely to report that their mental health was negatively affected by the pandemic.
In the U.S. and Canada, 62% of working women reported experiencing stress "a lot of the day" the previous day -- 10 percentage points higher than working men and a significant increase from 2019 levels (51%).Larger increase in workplace burnout. Working women also report higher on-the-job burnout than working men do, and the gender gap in burnout has only widened during the pandemic.
In 2019, 30% of women and 27% of men said they "always" or "very often" felt burned out at work. That three-point gap expanded to 12 points in the pandemic-era months of 2020, from March to December, and has averaged eight points in 2021 -- 34% of women and 26% of men this year have reported feeling burned out.Increased pressures on working mothers.