But if you ask Woodruff-Truog, millennial women are poised stay on the front lines of the labor comeback. She looks around at her peers and sees a cohort that’s highly motivated to work, not just for money, but also for fulfillment and financial freedom.
“I don’t ever remember a time when so many women were like, ‘I can do that,”’ says the young mother, who attended nursing school while pregnant with her second child because she didn’t want to depend on her now-ex-husband’s income. She says the rise of dating apps and the casual relationships that come with them -- plus the broader decline of marriage -- is spurring other women she knows to get trained and go to work.
“Relationships are not like they used to be,” she said.
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