Female Execs Are Exhausted, Frustrated and Heading for the Exits https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-03-02/gen-x-female-executives-a... The data alarmed employers and economists as the shock waves of the pandemic hit the US. Women were leaving their jobs in droves. By the end of 2020, their share of the labor force had fallen to its lowest level since 1987.