shecession
Excessively high female unemployment.
uncommon
As Figure 2 shows, the model for the impact of regular versus pandemic recessions on women and men matches the evidence. A regular recession is a ‘mancession’, meaning that women’s total labour supply increases relative to men’s, whereas the pandemic recession is a ‘shecession’, with deep employment losses for women.
Where it comes from
Blend of she + recession, likely modeled after mancession. Popularized during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry shecession (CC BY-SA 4.0).