Beet
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« on: April 07, 2012, 05:07:59 PM » |
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« edited: April 07, 2012, 05:14:40 PM by Beet »
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FWIW, 88% of the net increase in jobs since February 2010 can be accounted for by net increase among men. The meme that men are in trouble was partially started by the collapse of the construction and manufacturing industries, compared to the relative stability of the health care, education and local government sectors. This meant that, during the recession men lost jobs at a disproportionate rate compared to women. But now with manufacturing coming back, construction bottoming out, and more men getting into fields such as nursing, we are seeing the jobs comeback centered around men. The male unemployment rate used to be much higher than the female unemployment rate, but now they are about even.
The technology center is going to be another job nexus over the next 10 years and I can tell you right now, women are in big trouble if we are counting on technology to provide the next generation's jobs. Well, we are all in trouble but women especially. Boys don't grow up dreaming of becoming scientists or astronauts the way they used to, but men don't have a problem learning this stuff if they need to, to find a career. For women, I don't think they are less capable than men but I do think the socialization is so overwhelming, a young woman who wants to maintain a successful feminine presentation, and goes into software is like an alien stepping into another planet.
Overall, the ratio of labor force participation of women to men made great strides through the mid-1990s and then stalled out.
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