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Michael Barone writes in the Washington Examiner today about the end of the “man-cession” â€" the notion that “many more men than women lost their jobs” during the recent economic downturn. As he points out, the Bureau of Labor Statistics found men lost 5.4 million jobs, while women lost 2.1 million during the same period (December 2007-June 2009).  

Barone identifies several factors that could have resulted in this imbalance, including the fact that several of the industries hit hardest by the recession were construction and manufacturing, both dominated by men. (Much to the chagrin of many feminists, actually, a central component of the economic “stimulus” plan in 2009 was massive spending on the repair of roads, bridges and schools, which they felt unfairly benefited men.) Barone also acknowledges that the highest number of job losses took place in the private sector rather than the public sector, where women tend to dominate.

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