Men bear the brunt of US jobs lost

Article here. Excerpt:

'The US recession has opened up the biggest gap between male and female unemployment rates since records began in 1948, as men bear the brunt of the economy’s contraction.

Men have lost almost 80 per cent of the 5.1m jobs that have gone in the US since the recession started, pushing the male unemployment rate to 8.8 per cent. The female jobless rate has hit 7 per cent.

This is a dramatic reversal of the trend over the past few years, where the rates of male and female unemployment barely differed, at about 5 per cent. It also means that women could soon overtake men as the majority of the US labour force.'

The author has to end of course with the usual sop to modern feminist mythology with: "Since women earn on average 20 per cent less than men, that is putting extra strain on many households," with no mention of course of the reasons behind it.