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Podcast: Women at Work
Episode: How Women Who’ve Lost Work Are Coping
Description: The pandemic has taken jobs, gigs, customers, and contracts from countless women. And many still aren’t sure when their industries will reopen or when clients will be ready to hire them again.
Three women — a massage therapist, an opera singer, and a small business owner — who lost work in March open up about how they’ve been coping with the changes to their employment and finding a way forward.
Resources:
“When Losing Your Job Feels Like Losing Your Self,” by Aliya Hamid Rao
“How Unemployment Affects Twentysomethings’ Self-Worth,” by Jeylan Mortimer et al.
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