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We are hiring over 10,00 pilots in the next 10 years - we need more people to be trained," said Jessica Kimbrough (no relation to Karin Kimbrough), the chief diversity equity and inclusion officer at United Airlines. White men have long dominated the flight deck, with women comprising less than 6% of all pilots and flight engineers, and people of color making up less than 10% of the fields. Some employers are actively recruiting women to diversify their ranks, such as United Airlines, whose Aviate flight school earlier this year said it wanted half its students to be women or people of color. Pitts noted that she's not vaccinated out of personal choice, but added, "That shouldn't discriminate against me from getting a job." A "smart thing" for business "I keep hearing there are a lot of job opportunities, but when I go out, I don't get a response back." She added, "It's very, very frustrating." "I've always been a working, helpful woman, as I like to see myself," Pitts of Phoenix, Arizona, said. Now that she's ready to get back to work, she's been applying for jobs but getting no responses. Frances Pitts, 34, said she stopped working in customer service during the pandemic to focus on caring for her five children. Other women say they want to get back into the workforce but aren't getting any bites from employers. While their decision may impact their ability to work for employers with vaccine mandates, creating their own businesses would give them the flexibility to trade off watching their baby rather than putting her in daycare, she said.
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Both she and her partner have chosen not get vaccinated against COVID-19 out of concern with potential side effects, Burdge said. Instead, she's planning to open her own business to clean homes, while her fiancé may also start a business in early 2022. But when considering returning to her job as a nursing assistant, she looked into daycare and decided that going back was no longer financially an option for her family. While some women are driven to change their careers to find new opportunities, others are stymied by health concerns, the cost of daycare or a lack of response from employers.Ĭrystal Burdge, 37, said she left the workforce at the start of the pandemic when her daughter was born. But women are more likely to consider departing from their career path to find something they're more passionate about, the study found, with 50% of women willing to explore such a move versus 44% of men. About 10% of Americans have quit their jobs to pursue their passions during the pandemic, according to a new study from Northwestern Mutual and OnePoll. In her view, the pandemic gave her the chance to reconsider her goals and make changes to her career. She eventually took a new job at a smaller company to work in social media, as well as a small pay cut, after realizing that Google's policies "made it challenging for me to feel creative." She also relocated from the San Francisco area to Denver to be closer to family. Some groups left behind in economic recovery 06:22īut there were still other career changes in store for Morgan. When the pandemic began, the 26-year-old worked as a recruiter for Google, a job that involved commuting five hours a day to the company's corporate campus. "Half my workday on a bus"Īmong the ranks of women who reevaluated their careers during the pandemic is Elizabeth Morgan.
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"Women had to take into the calculus a lot of factors, such as 'Is the wage that I'm being paid and the sacrifice in time worth it?' The calculus changed, and it wasn't as worth it," she said. While the pandemic has caused both men and women to reassess how they spend their time, Kimbrough said women have had multiple factors to consider, including childcare and their income. In early 2020, jobs that tend to be dominated by women, such as retail and other service jobs, cut workers aggressively amid stay-at-home orders that greatly impacted service businesses, she noted. And companies are again ramping up the hiring of women after the pandemic upended the job market. But LinkedIn chief economist Karin Kimbrough also points to signs of resilience among working women, with more striking out on their own to start a business during the health crisis.