Monday, June 22, 2009

The Macho-cession

There are good indications that working class men are not prepared for the new economy:
Men are bearing the brunt of the current economic crisis because they predominate in manufacturing and construction, the hardest-hit sectors, which have lost more than 3 million jobs since December 2007. Women, by contrast, are a majority in recession-resistant fields such as education and health care, which gained 588,000 jobs during the same period. Rescuing hundreds of thousands of unemployed crane operators, welders, production line managers, and machine setters was never going to be easy.
So men should learn to be teachers and nurses, right? Of course not ... we should blame feminists!

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