Return-to-work programs can smooth over career gaps

Due to persistent socioeconomic forces, women leave or pause their careers to raise kids or take on caregiving responsibilities more often than men do. And when these professionals want to resume their careers, they may face several barriers to being re-hired.

These issues came to the forefront in 2020, when women stepped away from their jobs in both Canada and the U.S. on such a large scale that the phenomenon was coined the “she-cession.”