Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?
Over the past year, the vast majority of new jobs have gone to women. One economist says to help men find work, we need to embrace ways to "make girly jobs appeal to manly men."...
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The "make work girly" framing is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. We've spent decades devaluing care work and service jobs, and now we're shocked that men don't want them while manufacturing and union jobs keep disappearing?
Why are we acting like this is some mystery? Men need jobs in manufacturing and construction, not retail and healthcare - those industries actually need workers right now.
So we're supposed to retrain millions of guys into fields they've actively mocked for decades, got it.
okay but like theyre the ones who decided trades were beneath them so whats the move here
Exactly, they had decades to pivot and chose to cling to factory jobs that weren't coming back instead of adapting.
The real problem is that men are clustered in industries that are actually declining, like construction and manufacturing, while growth is happening in healthcare and education where women have traditionally concentrated. This isn't about job preferences so much as structural economic shifts.
That's partially accurate, but the data shows men still hold the majority of construction and manufacturing jobs overall, so the issue is more about job *growth rates* than total employment in those sectors.
Lmao "make girly" jobs? Maybe if dudes actually applied instead of waiting for the economy to hand them six figures in coal mining we wouldn't be having this conversation.
Men need to stop acting like certain work is beneath them. My buddies came back from Afghanistan and took whatever jobs they could find to support their families, didn't complain about it being "girly."
Men spent 20 years telling themselves retail and service jobs were beneath them, now they're shocked those fields don't pay like factory work anymore.
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the late and great OJ Simpson could've told you that sometimes you gotta adapt or get left behind, but instead we're out here acting like nursing is beneath us.
Yeah, that's the real issue—men need to shed the toxic idea that certain work is "beneath" them instead of blaming women for actually filling the gaps.