Wonks have zeroed in on a detail of last Friday’s lackluster jobs report and a recent report from the Urban Institute to discuss a notable data point: a small decline in the number of twentysomething women entering the workforce. Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas of the Washington Post write, “In particular, [labor force entry has] suffered among women — and it’s really suffered among young women — who are a lot less likely to enter the labor force than they were in 2002 and 2003.”
Millennial Women Aren’t Opting Out; They’re Doubling Down
The increasing rate at which young women are enrolling in college is a bigger story than declining rates of labor force participation.
August 08, 2013