Tamron Hall speaks onstage during the 51st NAACP Image Awards.
Getty ImagesNot too long ago, women outnumbered men in the U.S. workforce. However, since the start of the pandemic, the total number of women who have left the labor force has surpassed 2.3 million (in comparison to the 1.8 million men who have left the labor force).
Tamron Hall, journalist and award-winning host of her eponymous ABC talk show, is partnering with beauty brand No7 to bring women back to work through Unstoppable Together, a virtual job summit. The event, scheduled for February 24, will bring together speakers including Arianna Huffington, Minda Harts and Padma Lakshmi, and tackle the challenges surrounding gender inequality and the wage gap.
“It's important from my perspective that we remind women how relevant we are to the workforce,”Hall tells For(bes) The Culture. “This summit will give women the extra boost of confidence they need.”
The free, four-hour virtual summit, an accompaniment to No7’s new Unstoppable Together campaign, will offer workshops on professional skills, including interview strategies, virtual networking, and career pivoting. It’ll also address one of the biggest challenges facing women in the workplace: how to balance work and motherhood.
“Women are almost twice as likely to reduce their working hours to provide childcare and three times more likely to not work at all due to childcare demand,” says Hall. “We are being put in the unfortunate position to stay in the traditional role of the parent and sole caretaker at the expense of pursuing our dream and in some cases the necessary job to make ends meet.”
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The summit is a step in the right direction toward helping women reenter the workforce, but progress is also heavily dependent on pandemic recovery, a factor that’s played a major role in job loss.
Hall, for her part, is committed to moving the needle where she can, advocating for stronger pipelines for women at ABC, specifically, in part by demanding to have a wide range of women on the staff of her show. “We brought together an unstoppable team built on the diversity of women,” she says. “With the majority of daytime television viewers being women, I didn't want an environment where men were telling viewers what they should be doing or thinking.”
She hopes more companies will have conversations with employees about workplace policies, and how they affect women and pay equity.
“There has to be a pipeline where we grow and encourage female entrepreneurs in the same way men have been supported in the past,” she says. “When we look at the workforce now, many women believe there is no place for them at the table when in fact, we are the table, we are the chair, we are the people who bring in the diverse voices that make any and every company better.”
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