Washington Post: Obama's 'Man-Cession'

Article here. Excerpt:

'Much has been made of this fascinating Labor Department report, which USA Today put on its front page. It shows that women now hold almost half of all jobs in the US (49.83 percent, to be precise), up from 31.8 percent in 1964. One of the causes: men have been clobbered by the recent economic downturn, having lost three-quarters of the 6.4 million jobs wiped out since December 2007. Guy work like construction and manufacturing has been hard hit; meanwhile, the fastest growing sectors are health care, education and government, where women dominate new hires. These also happen to be the areas that are slated to get the biggest infusions of federal money under the president’s $787 billion fiscal stimulus plan.

It’s not a recession, it’s a man-cession! So far, though, most of the commentary has focused on whether this proves that America’s economy is now biased against men or whether it is still biased against women.
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But what happens to that support if men get the idea that Obama didn’t help get their jobs back? Carter’s male support dropped to 36 percent against Republican Ronald Reagan in 1980.

This is far from foreordained, but if I were one of Obama’s political advisers, I would be thinking about this.'