{"id":819278,"date":"2026-08-19T23:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819278\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T23:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T23:44:10","slug":"data-shows-women-are-leaving-the-workforce-what-does-that-say-about-the-economy-consider-this-from-npr-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/819278\/","title":{"rendered":"Data shows women are leaving the workforce. What does that say about the economy? : Consider This from NPR : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1787183050_227_.jpeg\" data-template=\"https:\/\/npr.brightspotcdn.com\/dims3\/default\/strip\/false\/crop\/3000x1688+0+0\/resize\/{width}\/quality\/{quality}\/format\/{format}\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Ff3%2F0c%2F9dcfe5934c9e93931122e5d57b80%2F9c4b9ef5-68a4-4256-8c82-189d444aac17.jpg\" class=\"img\" alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n                A woman works on GM truck engine on the assembly line of the General Motors Flint Assembly Plant.<\/p>\n<p>                    Bill Pugliano\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>                hide caption\n            <\/p>\n<p>              toggle caption<\/p>\n<p>        Bill Pugliano\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>For decades, one of the most reliable trends in the American economy has been the growing number of women working.<\/p>\n<p>But lately, government data shows women\u2019s participation in the labor force has been falling.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s behind this trend &#8211; and what does it tell us about the state of the US economy?<\/p>\n<p>This episode was produced by Linah Mohammad and Karen Zamora, with audio engineering by Hannah Gluvna and Robert Rodriguez.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It was edited by Sarah Handel and Tinbete Ermyas. Our director is Alejandra Marquez Janse.<\/p>\n<p>Our interim executive producer is Courtney Dorning.<\/p>\n<p>Support public media with NPR+ and enjoy perks for over 25 podcasts like this one. This show\u2019s perks include bonus episodes and sponsor-free listening. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/plus.npr.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">plus.npr.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman works on GM truck engine on the assembly line of the General Motors Flint Assembly Plant.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":819279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-819278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}