{"id":435467,"date":"2010-03-16T12:50:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T16:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/business\/archive\/2010\/03\/and-you-thought-i-our-i-mancession-was-bad\/37558\/"},"modified":"2010-03-16T12:50:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T16:50:41","slug":"and-you-thought-our-mancession-was-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/435467","title":{"rendered":"And You Thought Our Mancession Was Bad…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember the mancession<\/a>? People started to see it more than a year ago, when male unemployment was racing past 10 percent months before the official rate hit double digits. The difference between male and female unemployment hit an all-time high in 2009. The reasons were fairly straightforward. The overall decline in manufacturing gave men a running start. The housing bubble both created and later destroyed jobs in the residential construction industry, where nine out of ten<\/a> workers are men. Combined, manufacturing and construction have lost more than 2.5 million
\njobs in the recession.<\/p>\n

But take heart, men of America. You are not alone. Economix blogger Catherine Rampell spots<\/a> a graph showing that America’s mancession is actually pretty average among developed countries:
.<\/p>\n

\"DESCRIPTION\"<\/p>\n

Denmark’s story is pretty extraordinary. For every 100 newly unemployed women, 182 men lost their jobs in the first year and a half of the recession. Outlier alert: South Korea was the only OECD country where female unemployment grew faster.<\/p>\n

For more on the mancession, read Dan Indiviglio’s great piece on the Fed predicting a rough road ahead<\/a> for men. I have my own thoughts on the possible she-covery here<\/a>. In short, the Council of Economic Advisers predicts that of the top five fastest growing job industries, three are within the health care and education sectors, where women are disproportionately employed.
<\/span><\/div>\n



\n

\n Email this Article<\/a>
\n Add to digg<\/a>
\n Add to Reddit<\/a>
\n Add to Twitter<\/a>
\n Add to del.icio.us<\/a>
\n Add to StumbleUpon<\/a>
\n Add to Facebook<\/a>
\n

\n\"\"<\/a>
\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Remember the mancession? People started to see it more than a year ago, when male unemployment was racing past 10 percent months before the official rate hit double digits. The difference between male and female unemployment hit an all-time high in 2009. The reasons were fairly straightforward. The overall decline in manufacturing gave men a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435467\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}