Women in the Workforce The number of women leaving the workforce in the US continues to increase as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and economic recession. The state of women in the US workforce and how it has been impacted by the pandemic has been described in the following brief. Number of Women Leaving the Workforce According to Time, between February and May, 11.5 million women in the United States lost their jobs compared to 9 million men. The first female recession in the United States deepened in September 2020. The number of women who left the labor force was more compared to the total number of jobs the United States added in September. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, between the months of August and September, the job market added about 661,000 jobs. During the same period, approximately 865,000 women left the workforce compared to 216,000 men . Retail and hospitality are sectors where women are the ...