{"id":1527,"date":"2009-02-25T13:28:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T18:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1527"},"modified":"2009-02-25T13:28:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T18:28:57","slug":"quick-stats-on-gender-layoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2009\/02\/25\/quick-stats-on-gender-layoffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Stats on Gender &amp; Layoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/tbn2.google.com\/images?q=tbn:9Ez2FJfNdlvizM:http:\/\/www.decodeunicode.org\/en\/u%2B0025\/data\/glyph\/196x196\/0025.gif\" alt=\"\" \/>Courtesy of my favorite economist, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heather_Boushey\">Heather Boushey, at the Center for American Progress<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>In answer to the question <em>&#8220;what about women? aren&#8217;t they losing jobs too?&#8221;,<\/em> here are some December 2008 stats for a reality check:<\/p>\n<p>Construction has lost 22.5 of all the jobs; manufacturing has lost 28.8% (add that together and that&#8217;s 50% of the jobs lost.)\u00c2\u00a0 These are both male-dominated fields.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Within manufacturing, over 2\/3 of the jobs have been lost by men.<\/strong> In manufacturing, at the start of the recession, women were 28.8% of all manufacturing workers.\u00c2\u00a0 They&#8217;ve since lost 32.9% of the jobs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Within construction, over 90% of the jobs have been lost by men.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Within the finance and insurance industries, where women actually made up almost 2\/3 of the workers, women have lost 1\/2 of all the jobs. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But let&#8217;s keep this in perspective: The financial industry overall has only lost 8% of the total jobs that have been lost.<\/p>\n<p>Finance jobs lost are nearly 230,000 jobs out of a total of 3 million jobs lost, as of December 2008.<\/p>\n<p>In real estate &#8211; the other subcategory in the financial field &#8211; women have lost over 100% of jobs, even though they made up about 1\/2 of the real estate workers at the beginning of the recession.<\/p>\n<p>All this underscores how important it is to look at industry-specific contexts when talking about gender and jobs.\u00c2\u00a0 On net, the men are losing.\u00c2\u00a0 Jobs, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of my favorite economist, Heather Boushey, at the Center for American Progress: In answer to the question &#8220;what about women? aren&#8217;t they losing jobs too?&#8221;, here are some December 2008 stats for a reality check: Construction has lost 22.5 of all the jobs; manufacturing has lost 28.8% (add that together and that&#8217;s 50% of [&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-1527","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\/1527","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=1527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}