Business
(2009-07-20)
CHICAGO, IL
(wsiu) -
In Illinois and across the country far more men have lost jobs during the recession than women, and that's reversing roles in a lot of families.Women are going out to work while men are staying home with the children.
Ira Wolfe is a workforce trends expert and author of The Perfect Labor Storm. He says what we're seeing is a continuation of a trend that started before the economy went bust. "That shift already happened to occur. What the recession did was certainly accelerate kind of what they predicted for years; that the male participation rate in the workforce was declining, and the female participation rate was climbing."
Wolfe says as early as the year 2000, about three quarters of the women between 18 and 45 were collecting paychecks.
Numbers from the US Labor Department show nearly three out of four jobs lost since the recession began belonged to men. That's because the industries such as manufacturing are traditionally male dominated.
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