But are we doing enough to fix it? This week, I talked to gender economist Katica Roy, who says that Congress isn’t thinking enough about gender in its Covid-19 recovery plans. Roy, the CEO and founder of Pipeline, a software company that helps businesses be equitable when it comes to gender, race and age, had stark warnings about the future: When women get paid less and work less, the whole economy loses billions, even trillions. But, she stressed, government programs should help fix that, with our input: “We all pay for it [through our taxes]. … We have a right to say how that should happen.”
Here are excerpts from our interview: