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Number of women overtakes men in U.S. workforce

New data from the Labor Department shows that last month, women held just over 50 percent of jobs in the U.S. – surpassing men by 109,000. The last time there were more women than men on U.S. payrolls was in the mid-2010s. Courtenay Brown, a markets reporter for Axios, joined CBSN to discuss what this means for the economy.
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