Wall Street Journal: The Jobless Gender Gap

Submitted by anthony on Sat, 2009-11-28 21:45

Article here. Excerpt:

'The unemployment rate for men, 11.4%, based on seasonally adjusted data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, outpaces the rate for women, 8.8%. We now have the largest jobless gender gap since tracking became possible in 1948. The gap reached its previous peak, 2.5 points, in 1967 and 1978. Today's gap has exceeded that for three months. It's endured at two points or above for an unprecedented length, eight months and counting.

As of the end of October, the U.S. had lost 7.3 million jobs in this Great Recession. Men account for 5.3 million of that loss. The shift is so dramatic that women now constitute 49.9% of the work force and will soon outnumber men.

So some have come to call this downturn the "he-cession." And yet, for all its unprecedented scope and nature, the limited attention and passive response it has received are remarkable. Imagine the outcry if women amounted to roughly three in four lost jobs in this recession.'

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I looked at some of the comments following the article, and as I expected, people are making a political (i.e. Right vs. Left) issue out of it rather than a men's issue per se.

Sigh.

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Sun, 2009-11-29 05:37

is that many men's activism sites have a distinctly conservative idealogical bent to them. I'll use the partner site "Men's News Daily as an example. It's a wonderful site which I love reading, but some of the articles have an unfortunate tendency to mix in politic ideology with what should be an A-political issue.

I'm all for people writing whatever they want on their own websites, but they should consider whether what they are writing is expanding the base of prospective male advocates, or limiting it.

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Submitted by moebius22 on Sun, 2009-11-29 19:58

the fact remains that by far most women/feminists are registered femocrats.
N.O.W. and their sympathizers (which are overwhelmingly anti-male) are all femocrats.
You are correct that men's issues should not be politicized - however both parties politicize men's issues and overwhelmingly the femocrats (and their many/various factions) come down AGAINST males.

oregon dad

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Submitted by oregon dad on Sun, 2009-11-29 21:27

...as long as the movement is over 95% right wing it's not going to get much done. The right wing boys are correct in criticizing Obama for sending over 40% of the new jobs to women,but if it wasn't for the excesses of capitalism most of those jobs wouldn't have been lost to begin with, and i don't see the right doing much about that problem.

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Submitted by MichaelClaymore on Sun, 2009-11-29 23:03

manonthestreet

moebius22 I just wanted to agree with you about MND. I would call it right wing rather than conservative and I have to say I think it spoils the site. I limit my reading very much on this site to just one or two authors who write much more to the point on men's issues. Similarly Bernard Chapin says all MRAs are conservative. I am not sure of this at all.

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Submitted by trotter on Mon, 2009-11-30 10:29

The rights of men need to have a political affiliation with a major party. The feminists control the liberal/democrat ideology in the U.S. - in academia, law and government. The only way to effectively oppose this hate movement against males is to align with a major party. Otherwise any attempt at reform will be wasted as an outside of the the mainstream issue. I do not expect the conservative movement will embrace men’s rights, but de-funding the hate movement that is part of our national infrastructure would be an excellent place to start…And the shift is coming…

Liberty and Justice for all.

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Submitted by liberty on Mon, 2009-11-30 16:28