Women at work may soon outnumber men
Posted on: Friday, 6 February 2009, 10:09 CST
Women may soon outnumber men in the U.S. workforce for the first time, U.S. Labor Department statistics show.
Women were employed at 49.1 percent of the non-farm jobs in the United States, The New York Times reported Friday. Using data that include farm workers and self-employed wage earners, women make up 47.1 percent of the workforce, the Times said.
But the recession and general employment trends have hastened the possibility that women may overtake men in employment figures.
While layoffs have been concentrated in manufacturing and construction jobs, 82 percent of those affected by layoffs in this recession are men, the Labor Department said.
While this has occurred jobs sectors favored by woman, such as healthcare and education, have largely avoided layoffs.
But, the trend is not a gain, overall, for households. Women earn 80 percent of what men earn and more often work at part-time jobs or at jobs without healthcare benefits, the Times reported.
A lot of jobs that men have lost ... were good union jobs with great healthcare plans,
Christine Owens, executive director of the National Employment Law Project, told the Times. The jobs women have ... are not necessarily as good.
Source: United Press International
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