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10. Check the Data: It’s a Man’s World

The Freakonomics Radio Book Club

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Invisible Women and the Pandemic

In the depths of the pandemic, 100 and forty thousand jobs were lost. But it turns out that if you break that down by gender, women actually lost 156 thousand jobs while men gained 16 thousand. So many of the issues that i raised in invisible women have been brought to the fore and really magnified by the pandemic. It's been hartening.

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