evidence: - The disparities grow even wider when considering race, with Black and Latina women working in retail and education sectors being hit the hardest. [...] "The most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) monthly jobs report shows that the economy lost 140,000 net jobs in December, marking the first month of job loss since the economy started adding back jobs in May 2020," said the National Women's Law Center, a nonprofit focused on achieving gender justice in courts and public policy. "All of the jobs lost were women's jobs, with women losing 156,000 jobs and men gaining 16,000." [...] About 1 in 12 Black women and 1 in 11 Latina women remain unemployed, the NWLC analysis says. Those figures represent about 8.4% and 9.1% unemployment rates.