THE IMPLOYMENT SHIFT

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Women held 49.83 percent of the nation's 132 million jobs in June and they're gaining the vast majority of jobs in the few sectors of the economy that are growing, according to the most recent numbers available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

At the current pace, women will become a majority of workers in October or November. From December 2007 to June 2009:

• Men have lost 74 percent of the 6.4 million jobs erased since the recession began in December 2007.
• Men have lost more than 3 million jobs in construction and manufacturing alone.

The only parts of the economy still growing -- health care, education and government -- have traditionally hired mostly women. The gender transformation is especially remarkable in local government's 14.6 million-person workforce:

• Cities, schools, water authorities and other local jurisdictions have cut 86,000 men from payrolls during the recession.
• These same organizations have added 167,000 women to their payrolls, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Equality in workforce numbers reflects a long-term cultural change pursued by the left for decades, and likely to continue given the female majority currently attending our colleges and universities...

[Not to worry, the harm being done is to men.]

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