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Minouche Shafik: Keeping talented women working is good for the economy
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Minouche Shafik: Keeping talented women working is good for the economy

More women are now going to college than men, but much of that talent later goes to waste. Why? For London School of Economics Director Minouche Shafik, the problem is that we don't have systems in place to retain talented women in the workforce in crisis situations like the pandemic, when so many women had to quit their jobs and stay home to take care of their kids.

Women have borne the economic brunt of the pandemic
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Women have borne the economic brunt of the pandemic

How quickly can we recover the costs of the pandemic's disproportionate toll on women? In the wake of COVID, Minouche Shafik says we need to restore equilibrium back into the social contract.