Women working more hours in Covid crisis than first thought, study finds

Full-time female employment in UK has actually risen over the crisis as average working hours slip less than men

Women's average working hours in the UK have taken a far smaller hit during the pandemic than men's, according to the Resolution Foundation.

Defying predictions of a shecession" at the start of the pandemic, the thinktank's quarterly labour market report found that women were not as hard hit by the Covid-19 pandemic as initially thought.