5 Ways to Bring Women Back into the Post-Pandemic Workforce

Millions of women have exited the U.S. workforce since the pandemic started, many due to a lack of school and childcare options. If left unaddressed, this exodus could set women’s progress in the workplace back an entire generation. Companies must create policies and programs designed to support their women employees and bring them back in after the pandemic ends. They can do so by offering a pandemic leave of absence, diversifying their pipelines of candidates, designing return-to-work and reskilling programs, and committing to being inclusive of women candidates with pandemic resume gaps. Companies that do this will find talent with the specific skill sets they need and will help mitigate the backward spiral of women’s workplace progress.