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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/business/19women.html?pagewanted=1&hp&adxnnlx=1253363532-PIch1r7eZM7ZyMSCUlhZTA
This one is from nytimes, I was just on the website looking for articles. It is about women who are going back to work after their husbands either got laid off or are having shaky times. I think this is a great thing, having more women in the work force, however, if they can get jobs, why can't their husbands? This is really interesting, it is kind of long, but I would stick with it if you can.
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/JOBSMAP09.html
This is not an article, it's an interactive graph. I found this on the wall street journal website. This is really interesting because the red means unemployment and the green/blue means employment. Just a year ago the US was just greenish and now it is really red. See for yourself, move the toggle under the map. It is a little scary though.
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I am surprised by this part of the first article:
ReplyDelete"When it comes to women with a college education who are 25 to 44 years old and living with a spouse, the proportion of those working or looking for work increased to 78.4 percent in the first half of 2009, from 76 percent in the first half of 2007."
This percentage change, about 2.4 percent over two years, doesn't seem like enough evidence to write a whole article about. I do find it very interesting, though, that 78% of recession-based layoffs have been men.
It was interesting to me that Michigan has the highest unemployment rate in the country. The first three paragraphs of the below article kind of address it, but not very well. I can't find anything that explains this any more in depth.
http://money.cnn.com/2009/07/17/news/economy/state_unemployment_report/
Following from Emily's post. Looking back, men have usually been paid at a higher rate than women. If women can do the exact same job as a male and get paid less for it, why not lay off males from the work force.
ReplyDeleteCompanies are paying less for the same labor executed.
As for the second article, wow.
It seems as though nobody has a job which obviously is not true but it sure does seem like it looking at the graph. I was playing around with the slide that progressively shows the increase in unemployment rates and its amazing how some states have been impacted so greatly and others haven't. It took Wyoming until February '09 to be 4.5% when in places like California and Michigan rates were up to 10-12%.
to reinforce yariany's post
ReplyDeleteI don't remember quite where it was that I heard this, but i was told that the annual salary of a truck driver (traditionally men) is higher than that of a nurse (traditionally women). This really shows the skewed payroll considering that to be a nurse you must have spent many years in college, however to be a truck driver you simply need to simply need to pass a road test to get your license.