More than half a million women left the labor force this year. Many are mothers with young children. It’s being called the next she-cession.

This may be a good thing to the extent that it reflects women’s preferences, such as wanting to spend more time with their families, or that it represents the improved ability of a partner to support a family on a single income.

It may be a bad thing to the extent that workplace policies (specifically the rollback of pandemic-era accommodations such as flexible work) make it harder for women to have a family alongside the career they trained for and desire to have.

But there’s a new theory in town: The fewer women in the workforce, the better. That argument — that working women are woke and will be the downfall of corporate America — is the subject

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