Tag: male unemployment

Dead Suit Walking (Can Manhood Survive the Latest Recession?)

Apr 21, 2011

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mwkruse

in Business, Economic News, Gender and Sex, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social, Vocation

Newsweek: Dead Suit Walking If this isn't the Great Depression, it is the Great Humbling. Can manhood survive the lost decade? … The suits are “doing worse than they have at any time since the Great Depression,” says Heidi Shierholz, a labor economist at the Economic Policy Institute. And while economists don’t have fine-grain data…
The “Man-Cession” Worsens, Record M-F Gap

Feb 9, 2009

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mwkruse

in Economics, Gender and Sex, Trends: Economic

Carpe Diem: The "Man-Cession" Worsens, Record M-F Gap According to today's BLS labor report, the gap between the male jobless rate (8.3%) and female jobless rate (6.7%) widened to 1.6%, which is the largest male-female jobless rate gap in BLS history (back to 1948).