{"id":740,"date":"2009-05-04T06:49:36","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T12:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=740"},"modified":"2009-05-02T20:53:22","modified_gmt":"2009-05-03T02:53:22","slug":"men-bearing-the-brunt-of-the-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2009\/05\/04\/men-bearing-the-brunt-of-the-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;men bearing the brunt of the layoffs&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/globalbiz\/content\/may2009\/gb2009051_740858.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_top+stories\">Business Week<\/a> ran a story over the weekend about how the economic meltdown is hitting male-dominated jobs, such as those in car manufacturing and finance, much harder than the service sector, where jobs are more often held by women.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Good thing they call upon a sociologist to sort this out for their readers&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In a society where services are becoming increasingly important, women quite simply have the better jobs,&#8221; says Hans Bertram, a sociologist at the Humboldt University in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>Bertram is not at all surprised by the fact that it is men who are worst affected by the crisis. &#8220;That was historically always the case, for example when you look at the collapse of the steel and coal industries in the Ruhr industrial region,&#8221; he says. Unemployment has always been a part of life in an industrialized country, and belongs to the rhythm of industrial society. &#8220;As long as someone is young and strong, he can make good money as a construction worker. But once you are 35 and your body won&#8217;t cooperate any more, there are fewer prospects,&#8221; Bertram explains.<\/p>\n<p>He thinks it unlikely that, for example, former Opel workers will simply retrain to work in the service sector. &#8220;You can&#8217;t turn a steel worker into a call center agent,&#8221; he says. The service industry usually requires higher qualifications and these are not easily acquired later on in life, he explains.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The change will only come with the generations,&#8221; Bertram says. &#8220;Perhaps young men will now more often decide against becoming a mechanic or a construction worker and instead opt to train as a nurse.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/globalbiz\/content\/may2009\/gb2009051_740858.htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_top+stories\">Read more.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business Week ran a story over the weekend about how the economic meltdown is hitting male-dominated jobs, such as those in car manufacturing and finance, much harder than the service sector, where jobs are more often held by women.\u00a0 Good thing they call upon a sociologist to sort this out for their readers&#8230; &#8220;In a [&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":[36,39114,143,76],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-economics","tag-gender","tag-labor","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","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=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":742,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions\/742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}