“Don’t rush back to what was before just because of what was before.”

President and CEO of the non-profit AnitaB.org Brenda Darden Wilkerson, urging the tech industry to rethink workplace models to help retain women in the field after the pandemic had a disproportionate impact on working women. Women accounted for 47.6 percent of job gains last month, but according to recent analysis, there will need to be more than nine straight months of that same level of growth to recover the 3.8 million net jobs women lost since February 2020. (The Hill — July 31, 2021)