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Lulu Garcia-Navarro. In Nailed It , director Adele Free Pham — whose father is a refugee from Vietnam — explores how Vietnamese entrepreneurs came to dominate the nail salon business in the United States. If you've had a manicure lately, chances are you probably had it done at a nail salon run by people of Vietnamese heritage. The salons are everywhere — in nearly every city, state and strip mall across the United States.

While customers once indulged in hot stone manicures and strawberry mojito foot soaks at Studio 18 Nail Bar in Orange County, California, co-owner Christie Nguyen no longer has her seven manicurists on the payroll. All are Asian American women now on unemployment. After three pandemic shutdowns, Nguyen worries about the future. Like the virus itself, the Covid recession has hit communities unevenly. Forty-four percent of unemployed Asian American women have been out of work six months or more, according to the U. Bureau of Labor Statistics, compared to Black women at

In Asia, women working in China are most likely to share an equal footing with men, according to a gender diversity study by non-profit organization Community Business. The world's second largest economy outperformed in the survey of 32 multinational firms across China, Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Japan and Malaysia. In terms of female representation in the workforce, China topped the charts at the junior and senior levels, but lost out marginally to Malaysia in the middle levels and total workforce rankings. Female workforce participation rose across the board in the mainland; the number of women holding senior positions jumped the most — to The findings tally with a World Economic Forum report released this week that said China improved in gender equality and has the second highest percentage of firms with female participation in ownership across Asia.

When Shilpa Sachdev lost her job as human resources associate at a grantmaking foundation last month, she joined the ranks of the tens of millions of workers across the country who have become unemployed during the Covid pandemic. The federal agency failed to renew her work authorization, linked to her H-4 visa status as the spouse of an H-1B visa holder, before her previous work authorization had reached its three-year limit and expired in November. As a result, Sachdev remains unable to work until the agency renews her work permit — a process its website claims could take up to 17 months. Now, Sachdev worries that she may not be able to return to the job she loves. Sachdev is one of what immigration attorneys estimate to be thousands of immigrants across the country — most of whom are women from India, and some of whom were working on the front lines of the pandemic — who are now unable to work because of increasingly long delays by USCIS under the Trump administration in the processing of their visa-based work authorizations, known as H-4EADs.