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How have women in the workforce fared, three years into the pandemic?
A childcare worker at a table with three young children.

(Homepage image) Women take on the majority of work in the care economy, both the informal, unpaid kind and paid jobs in fields like child care, education, and social services. “It might seem like the gender disparity has washed out and, in many areas, we have rebounded to pre-COVID levels,” says Gonalons-Pons. “But the care economy has not yet recovered.”

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How have women in the workforce fared, three years into the pandemic?

Despite hopeful signs that this demographic is returning to work, certain female-dominated sectors, like the care economy, still haven’t recovered, signaling there’s more to learn about COVID-19’s full effect.

Michele W. Berger

Lessons from the Silicon Valley Bank collapse
A person walking past a shuttered SVB branch.

A Silicon Valley Bank branch in San Francisco on March 13, 2023. As the primary regulator of the bank, the Federal Reserve is coming under sharp criticism from financial watchdogs and banking experts.

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Lessons from the Silicon Valley Bank collapse

Wharton finance professor Itamar Drechsler discusses what led to the collapse of SVB and the questions it raises for banks, depositors, and regulators going forward.

From Knowledge at Wharton