Male unemployment

Male unemployment

Male unemployment or mancession is the disproportionate unemployment of men as compared with women. This gender gap became wide in the USA in the recession of 2009 when 10.5% of men were unemployed, compared with 8% of women.[1][2]

References

  1. ^ Baxter, Sarah (June 7, 2009), Women are victors in ‘mancession’, London: The Sunday Times, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6445913.ece, retrieved May 12, 2010 
  2. ^ Howard J. Wall (October 2009), The "Man-Cession" of 2008-2009, Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis, http://stlouisfed.org/publications/re/articles/?id=1712 



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