Women Have Regained Greater Share of Jobs Lost in Recession Than Men

that the majority of all jobs created to prop up the unemployment numbers were in government? and gov. only hires using affirmative action 'guidelines'. a gov. hiring ofice is downstairs in the building where i work. you should see the winners going and coming from there. saw recently where 18% of gov. workers are black, in an overall population of 12%, nationwide. wonder what population is female? especially new hires.

so, translated for ordinary 'unspecial' categories of people, the gov. is hiring like crazy, and white men aren't on the menu. i know its probably true since the media dropped it like a mistaken pile of poo.

probably trying to staff all those new obamacare centers where (mostly) women and special minorities will sit on their ever expanding derrieres and continue to suckle at the teat of poor uncle sugar. gosh, that'll make healthcare a lot better, and cheaper too. we can just borrow trillion$ more to pay for it all. oh, and gut the military. sounds like a plan to me.

yes, just put that on my children's and grandchildren's credit card. thank you.

Black or female, it shouldn't matter in gov't or any other hiring activities. It ought to be about qualifications for the job, primarily education and experience. But if the gov't finds people who are black (or more generally, non-white) or female more qualified than other applicants (and they are hiring from pools of *applicants*, not the general population; you have to apply to be considered, just like any other job), then they do. Are they hiring based purely on education/experience? The law allows them to make hiring decisions based on "targets" for certain categories of person, including military veterans, so it looks like they don't. Still, it doesn't mean that the people they hire aren't "qualified", it may just mean that they were looking at more than just education/experience when going to make the decision.

You'll find "winners", as it were, not just in gov't but all kinds of other jobs too, and they come from all kinds of people regardless of race or sex. The basic problem our gov't has created is that it has set up a class-based system of hiring and applicant evaluation wherein people are regarded as distinct from one another based on indelible characteristics, such as race and sex. One may have been able to argue that such was necessary in the past when anti-non-white bigotry and anti-female sex discrimination was more prevalent in society where hiring practices were concerned; how one can make this case today, I don't know. "Affirmative action" was if anything meant to be a remedial tool and now it has become its own quota-based institution, and institutions have this way of wanting to see themselves live on.