{"id":173,"date":"2008-07-25T21:36:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T03:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=173"},"modified":"2008-07-25T21:36:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-26T03:36:08","slug":"the-truth-behind-the-opt-out-revolution-from-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/07\/25\/the-truth-behind-the-opt-out-revolution-from-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"the truth behind the opt-out revolution&#8230; from Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A posting from Judith Warner on the New York Times blog &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/warner.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">Domestic Disturbances<\/a>&#8216; titled, &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/warner.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/24\/the-other-home-equity-crisis\/index.html\">The Other Home Equity Crisis<\/a>,&#8217; takes a look at how women are increasingly affected by job loss in times of economic downturn. As further evidence that the opt-out revolution is a myth, beyond Warner&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perfectmadness.net\/\">book<\/a>, the article cites a report from Congress that was just recently released.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This week,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jec.senate.gov\/index.cfm?FuseAction=Reports.Reports&amp;ContentRecord_id=4aaaa4af-e9c5-429e-7fab-4a700496c4f4\" target=\"new\">Congress issued a report<\/a>, titled \u201cEquality in Job Loss: Women are Increasingly Vulnerable to Layoffs During Recessions,\u201d that may \u2014 if read in its entirety \u2014 finally, officially and definitively sound a death knell for the story of the Opt-Out Revolution. The report, commissioned by Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, states categorically that mothers are not leaving the workforce to stay home with their kids. They\u2019re being forced out.<\/p>\n<p>Women \u2014 all women, mothers or not \u2014 were hit \u201cespecially hard\u201d hard by the recession of 2001 and the recovery-that-never-really-was, the report states. \u201cUnlike in the recessions of the early 1980s and 1990s, during the 2001 recession, the percent of jobs lost by women often exceeded that of men in the industries hardest hit by the downturn. The lackluster recovery of the 2000s made it difficult for women to regain their jobs \u2014 women\u2019s employment rates never returned to their pre-recession peak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>While prior recessions tended to spare women\u2019s jobs relative to men\u2019s, that trend has been reversed in the current downturn, thanks in part to women\u2019s progress in entering formerly male industries and occupations, and in part to the fact that job sectors like service and retail, which still employ disproportionate numbers of women, have suffered disproportionate losses. And this \u2014 not a calling to motherhood \u2014 accounts for the fall, starting in 2000, of women\u2019s labor force participation rates.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/warner.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/24\/the-other-home-equity-crisis\/\">Read the full post.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A posting from Judith Warner on the New York Times blog &#8216;Domestic Disturbances&#8216; titled, &#8216;The Other Home Equity Crisis,&#8217; takes a look at how women are increasingly affected by job loss in times of economic downturn. As further evidence that the opt-out revolution is a myth, beyond Warner&#8217;s book, the article cites a report from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[35,39112,70,39114,76],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-children","tag-culture","tag-family","tag-gender","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}