{"id":1490,"date":"2009-02-02T13:34:18","date_gmt":"2009-02-02T18:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1490"},"modified":"2009-02-02T13:34:18","modified_gmt":"2009-02-02T18:34:18","slug":"his-and-her-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/02\/02\/his-and-her-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Hit: “His” and “Her” Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

From “Why the Sting of Layoffs Can be Sharper for Men,” <\/a>NYTimes Jan. 31, 2009:<\/p>\n

As job losses reverberate across the economy, differences in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153his\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153her\u00e2\u20ac\u009d layoffs are beginning to take shape \u00e2\u20ac\u201d revealing gender dynamics that may not have been as apparent when the Dow was at 14,000.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dr. Louann Brizendine, author of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Female Brain\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco, says that women who lose their jobs \u00e2\u20ac\u0153aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t going to take as much of a self-esteem hit\u00e2\u20ac\u009d as men. That is because the most potent form of positive social feedback for many men comes from within the hierarchy of the workplace. By contrast, she said, women may have \u00e2\u20ac\u0153many sources of self-esteem \u00e2\u20ac\u201d such as their relationships with other people \u00e2\u20ac\u201d that are not exclusively embedded within their jobs.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n

She said that over the past six months, her clinic has had an increase in the number of men seeking help for difficulties related to job loss.<\/em><\/p>\n

Terrence Real, a family therapist and the founder of Real Relational Solutions in Arlington, Mass., said the difference in reactions could be explained by the idea of performance esteem.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Everyone who has written about male psychology has acknowledged that men base their sense of self on the maxim that \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcI have worth because of what I do,\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Real said. The feeling is that \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you are only as good as your last game or your last job,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said.<\/em><\/p>\n

In his practice over the past 12 months, Mr. Real says, he has seen a roughly 20 percent uptick in the number of men seeking help because of the economic downturn.<\/em><\/p>\n

Interesting….More from me on all this to come.\u00c2\u00a0 (Check out Recessionwire.com<\/a>, plug plug!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From “Why the Sting of Layoffs Can be Sharper for Men,” NYTimes Jan. 31, 2009: As job losses reverberate across the economy, differences in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153his\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153her\u00e2\u20ac\u009d layoffs are beginning to take shape \u00e2\u20ac\u201d revealing gender dynamics that may not have been as apparent when the Dow was at 14,000. Dr. Louann Brizendine, author of […]<\/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":[131,8959,21554,1976,876],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economy","tag-families","tag-marriage-today","tag-masculinity","tag-men"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","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=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}