Joblessness falls among both men and women. A Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey reveals that “adult joblessness has been consistently higher among women than among men, with the women-men joblessness gap ranging from 10 to as high as 26 points since December 2011.”

According to the survey, the rate is 34.1 percent in women, while men are 22.2 percent as of November 2020. Research taken from LinkedIn Opportunity Index 2021 also shows women facing significant barriers in achieving job-related opportunities.

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