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One of the fakest narratives to come from the COVID pandemic is the notion that female workers have been hardest hit, leading to claims of a ‘pink recession’.
For example, the Grattan Institute last month claimed that the “COVID recession hit women hardest”:
The COVID recession hit women much harder than men…
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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.