{"id":1477,"date":"2009-01-28T10:14:11","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T15:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1477"},"modified":"2009-01-28T10:14:11","modified_gmt":"2009-01-28T15:14:11","slug":"coverage-of-the-unequally-unemployed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/01\/28\/coverage-of-the-unequally-unemployed\/","title":{"rendered":"Coverage of the Unequally Unemployed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.seattleweekly.com\/dailyweekly\/unemployment.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Following on the heels of <a href=\"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1476\">Virginia&#8217;s post from yesterday<\/a>, I just saw this Reuters article (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/domesticNews\/idUSTRE50L12T20090122\">&#8220;Job Losses Hitting Men Harder Than Women&#8221;<\/a>) about how the economic crisis is hitting men much harder than women in the workplace, largely because male-dominated industries like construction and transportation are bearing the brunt of job losses, figures show.<\/p>\n<p>Women, meanwhile, dominate sectors that are still growing, like government and healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>But I have to ask: Are articles like these minimizing the recession&#8217;s effects on women?\u00c2\u00a0 What about the hard times for women seeking to re-enter the workforce because hubby just got laid off?\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 When calculating unemployment, do you count the number of jobs lost or jobs unfound?\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not an economist and I&#8217;m SO not into playing the recession oppression Olympics here, believe me, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2208521\/\">Linda Hirshman had an interesting take on it all in Slate the other week<\/a> and I just wanted to share.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on the heels of Virginia&#8217;s post from yesterday, I just saw this Reuters article (&#8220;Job Losses Hitting Men Harder Than Women&#8221;) about how the economic crisis is hitting men much harder than women in the workplace, largely because male-dominated industries like construction and transportation are bearing the brunt of job losses, figures show. Women, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1902,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[131],"class_list":["post-1477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1902"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}