2020 has been a mess of year. With outbreak of Covid-19 in early march, which has us now in a pandemic, the term essential workers has been bought up a million times. At first, many people were not to sure who exactly essential workers were. To clear this up, the New York Times posted a handy benchmark graph as seen below.
More intrestingly, This graph shows the share of essential workers who are women. 52% of ALL essential workers are women. Evenmore, they make up for more than half of the workers in social work and in the healthcare field. The simplicity of this benchmark graph makes it easy to anayzle the data of who are essential workers in the Covid-19 pandemic.
One reply on “Who are Essential Workers?”
Great job on this blog post! I like how you inserted an example with a source, a link, and bold lettering in the text. My eyes were automatically drawn to the bold text and this is a great way to draw conclusions from the graph. Where did you find this data set? I clicked on the link but could not find the graph.