"You don't often see such striking trends in labor data," said lead researcher Alexander Arnon.
Since those with college degrees are more likely to work than those without, this raised the overall employment rate of prime-age women by 2.7 percentage points since 2000, per Penn.
Meanwhile, Arnon pointed out, even before the pandemic juiced workplace flexibility for office workers to the nth degree, advances in tech made office work far more flexible.
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