Since January 2025, over 212,000 women aged 20 and older have left the workforce, reversing previous trends of increasing female employment. The labor force participation rate for women aged 25 to 44 with children under five decreased from 69.7% to 66.9% between January and June. The retraction of flexible work policies, mandated by companies and federal orders, particularly affected women with bachelor's degrees, whose participation rate fell to 67.7% in July 2025, down from a peak of 70.3% in September 2024.
Women ages 20 and over have left the workforce, contrasting sharply with men, as flexible work policies have been revoked on a large scale, leading to significant declines in labor force participation.
The participation rate of women aged 25 to 44 with young children dropped nearly three percentage points, showing the impact of the return to in-office work policies that have surged since early 2025.
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