Around 1.3 million women with micro-businesses lost their income and just over 3 million of them were forced out of the labor market due to the pandemic, according to the National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE) of July 2020. Almost one year after the start of the pandemic, data like this has only increased and there is no bright future in sight.
Although it is true that the job cuts and the closure of companies affected women and men equally, reintegration into activities after losing their job has been more complicated for us, since the responsibilities we now have in the homes have been increased, since, in addition to our daily work with the closure of schools we have to participate to a large extent in the education of our children, some even have the responsibility of caring for the elderly.
In addition to the above, the search for your income has become a titanic task in this new context because the archaic work culture in our country makes it more difficult every day by not being aware and flexible with this new reality that we are living.
To make matters worse, it is important to mention that the pandemic generated a transit in the distribution of jobs in Mexico, imagine, part of the positions that were occupied by women are now occupied by men, we went from 23 million paid subordinate positions to almost 40 million.
The foregoing has ratified what throughout history women have had to demonstrate their capabilities in a double effort compared to men, our group, which is the group most affected during the pandemic, has managed to reinvent itself since it has caused that develop the three superpowers that have made us an unstoppable genre.
