COVID-19 forced women to leave their jobs. Can California help them get back to work? By Jeong Park, Hannah Wiley, and Kim Bojorquez Stacy Lynn Vasquez sits in her shuttle bus which she is converting to a RV for a cross county trip after being laid-off from her job selling motor homes in Manteca. Photographed at her home in Modesto, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2020. Andy Alfaro aalfaro@modbee.com In nearly every major recession, more men lost jobs than women. But the coronavirus outbreak is an exception. The pandemic and stay-at-home orders decimated industries such as hospitality that had employed a large number of women. Thousands more working mothers quit their job or reduced their working hours to care for their children as schools went online. All over the state, women are making difficult choices about what kind of job they want to do when the pandemic ends. “When I think about having to go get a minimum wage job, I just don’t want to do that,” said Stacy Lynn Vasquez, 53 in Modesto, who lost her job selling motor homes and trailers in Manteca.