The Covid pandemic has set back the progress of women in the workplace by “at least two years”, a report has found.
PwC’s Women in Work Index warns that the ‘motherhood penalty’ has been exacerbated by the outworkings of the pandemic due to a range of factors including women having to take on more childcare duties as facilities such as nurseries were closed during lockdowns.
They survey found some positives, however, an improvement in the gender pay gap. This narrowing may have been skewed by the fall in male wages during the pandemic, it is suggested.
