Recession Deepens Workforce Gender Shifts
Every month, some of the millions of unemployed Americans decide to stop looking for work, even if they haven’t found a job. This means they’re no longer counted as “unemployed,” as they now fall into the “exited the workforce” category. And turns out, men are now leaving the workforce faster than women, a historical shift.
Elizabeth Eaves, writing at Forbes, says:
In March 2009, the BLS reported that 1,162,000 women and 1,238,000 men had shifted from “looking” to “stopped looking” in the preceding month.
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