With the new employment numbers, showing signs of hope, it’s a good moment for a mancession-hecovery update.
The real trend’s rebound isn’t quite that balanced, but it’s leaning that way:
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics. Average for 2011 through November.
Clearly, men lost more jobs — more than twice as many from 2007 to 2010 (4.9 million versus 2 million). But looking just at the last 22 months you can see that men are bouncing back while women are stalled:
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics (seasonally adjusted).
Note that I use these numbers of employed people instead of unemployment rates because it takes out the subjective element of who supposedly wants a job, which isn’t well measured. Also, these aren’t people who have full-time jobs or good jobs, just jobs.
[...] refers to the first few years of the recession, in which men lost 2.5 times as many jobs as women. But in February of 2010, the trend reversed, yielding what’s been [...]
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