Friday, July 8, 2011

Jobs market: Men, hit hardest in recession, are getting work faster than women

The recession was hard on men, who saw construction and manufacturing jobs dry up, but the recovery is proving much kinder. In a rare turnabout, men are outpacing women in getting jobs as the economy struggles back to life ? and they?re doing it partly by taking work in fields long dominated by women.

Men are accounting for a growing proportion of jobs in the private education and health-care industries ? economic bright spots of the past two years. Simultaneously, women are losing teaching and other local government jobs at a disproportionately high rate as municipalities cut back, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center.

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