Elusive Equity: Continuing Effects of the Pandemic on Women’s Economic Security (2023)
Report examines how women, particularly women of color, are navigating the post-pandemic economic landscape in Connecticut.
In February 2021, the Connecticut Data Collaborative, funded by Aurora Foundation, the Community Fund for Women & Girls and other partners across our state issued a report, Essential Equity: Women, COVID-19 and Rebuilding CT, examining the impact of COVID-19 on women and girls.
Released in 2023, Elusive Equity: Continuing Effects of the Pandemic on Women’s Economic Security is an update and extension of the Essential Equity report.
Essential Equity highlighted how COVID-19 exacerbated existing inequities and disproportionately impacted women of color in terms of economic security, childcare, housing, mental health, infection and death rates from COVID-19, and safety. The report noted how these unequal outcomes were the result of centuries of systemic racism, which resulted in communities of color continuing to be under-resourced.
Two years later, the Elusive Equity report looks back and forward to ask how women, particularly women of color, are navigating the post-pandemic economic landscape. Do women have the education and training they need to secure jobs that pay a family sustaining wage? Do women have access to affordable high-quality childcare? Are women still concentrated in industries that are considered “essential,” but that are characterized by low wages, job insecurity, and risks to their health and safety? How have rising costs for basic needs such housing impacted women and their families?
Elusive Equity report was produced by Connecticut Data Collaborative and funded by Aurora Women and Girls Foundation and The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven's Community Fund for Women and Girls.
