The pandemic was so bad for working women, especially mothers, that it was known in some quarters as the “she-cession.” But the recovery — and can we please not call it the “she-covery” — has been pretty good for them.

In the last few years, after decades of stagnation, women have made progress at closing both the labor gap and the wage gap. The jobs market has undergone some big changes that favor women — though they also make women more vulnerable if it turns.