While the number of jobs dropped steeply, particularly for men, in the Great Recession, slow job growth has characterized the recovery. In the first two years of the recovery, men saw faster job growth than women. By the third year of recovery, in terms of share of jobs lost that were regained, women’s job growth saw pronounced gains and largely caught up to men’s. Within the recovery’s fourth year, the percentage of lost jobs regained by women overall exceeded that of lost jobs regained by men. The fifth year of recovery saw women surpass their pre-recession levels of employment, while men have not yet made up their recession job losses. As of June 2014, men had regained 90.1 percent of the jobs they lost in the recession and women had regained 136.3 percent of theirs.
Women and Men in the Recovery: Where the Jobs Are; Women Recover Jobs Lost in Recession in Year Five
By Heidi Hartmann and Elyse Shaw|2021-01-05T03:46:15-05:00November 6, 2014|IWPR|Comments Off on Women and Men in the Recovery: Where the Jobs Are; Women Recover Jobs Lost in Recession in Year Five