| inbluevt | Date: Friday, 2013/09/13, 0:34 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The slowly recovering U.S. job market has helped women rebound faster than men: They've now regained all the jobs they lost to the Great Recession. Men are still 2.1 million jobs short.
And the gender gap is expected to persist until the job market is much healthier.
To understand why, consider the kinds of jobs that are, and aren't, being added.
Lower-wage industries, like retail, education, restaurants and hotels, have been hiring the fastest. Women are predominant in those areas. Men, by contrast, dominate sectors like construction and manufacturing, which have yet to recover millions of jobs lost in the
recession.
"It's a segregated labor market, and men and women do work in different industries, and even in different areas within industries," says Heidi Hartmann, an economist and president of the Institute for Women's Policy Research.
Economists have long known that the recession hit men the hardest. "A man-cession," some have called it. Or a "she-covery."
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