Flexible work arrangements and more affordable child-care may be behind record-high employment rates recorded last year among Canadian women, experts said after federal jobs data showed a big bump in the rate of working mothers.
, published last week, offered fresh evidence that women in Canada are bouncing back from the job losses that disproportionately affected them when the COVID-19 pandemic set in.
Carmina Ravanera, senior research associate at the University of Toronto’s Institute for Gender and the Economy, said fears of a “she-cession” were well-founded based on data available earlier in the pandemic. But she said the pandemic-driven rise of flexible and remote work arrangements has likely been particularly beneficial for female workers, as women tend to take on more caregiving responsibilities within families.
The tight labour market in 2022 also offered an opening for women to negotiate for better-paying jobs or starting in new fields of work, Mahboubi added. Some women may have used remote learning opportunities during the pandemic to gain new employment skills, she said, and the higher cost of living could have motivated some families to seek a second income.
“I think that definitely played a role and we'll probably, hopefully, see more of that in the coming years as reductions increase,” Ravanera said. “My kids were driving me nuts. I need to talk to adults,” she said in a phone interview. “Basically, all my money goes to my nanny, but it gets me out of the house.”
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