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Posted on 08/21/2026 2:08:19 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
After decades of efforts to bolster women’s role in the workforce, the male-female labor gap has now officially closed. By one measure, it has reversed.
American women now hold 176,000 more payroll jobs than American men, according to July data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics analyzed by Laura Ullrich, director of economic research at Indeed. That disparity has nearly doubled since February. Compare it to the 1990s, when men held nearly seven million more jobs than women. It’s not that women are filling roles that would have gone to men. Rather, men have been leaving the labor market in droves.
Ms. Ullrich calculates that all of U.S. job growth since last July has been for female employees, partially because tech and financial services jobs that are predominately held by men declined over the past year. Women have outperformed men in the workforce twice before in recent history, briefly during the economic contractions of the Great Recession and just before Covid. But Ms. Ullrich says the difference this time is that the trend isn’t driven by a recession and it isn’t likely to reverse anytime soon.
Structural shifts are partly to blame. A considerable portion of U.S. job growth today is in healthcare, which is 78% female. Meanwhile, the male-dominated industries of manufacturing and construction have lost employment for decades due to globalization and automation, especially after 2008. At least some of the decline in male workforce participation is due to the rise of male-dominated gig and contract work, as seen in construction and IT, which aren’t counted in standard nonfarm labor metrics.
Another driving force is cultural. The relatively low male unemployment rate doesn’t include the men who aren’t looking for work, which has reached a nearly 20-year high as of this spring.
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I have a friend that has two well educated sons, that can’t get interviewed, well qualified for jobs in their fields. They are working menial jobs. Very sad situation.
I was getting ready to post this question in response: “Are they abandoning the workforce, or is the workforce abandoning them?”
A DEI success story.
They will probably wind up in a revolutionary militia. Hopefully it’ll be a more Franco/Pinochet oriented one as opposed to Lenin/Mao.
Can they do simple math?
Remember Janis Joplin’s song “Me and Bobby McGee” with the line “Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose”?
Needs updating to “... nothing left to do”.
Do they know how to hold and use a hammer, shovel, weld, plumb or lay down mulch?
Finding employment today is ridiculously difficult.
I’ve seen some jobs on LinkedIn Premium that show 1,300+ people clicked “apply”.
And the people who do have jobs largely earn less than before since wages haven’t kept up with inflation.
This seems to be the case in almost all industrialized countries from Asia to North America to Europe.
So if people can’t afford to buy products then to whom will the companies sell their goods?
What are their fields of education?
Sorry to hear. I would imagine their dating prospects are slim as well in large part because of it.
In my opinion, the strongest drive for men, which is to do things to ‘get’ women, is being sabotaged for so many of our young men. The path to a loyal wife and children is bleak these days. A major destabilizer to the West.
Blue collar jobs are going unfilled. With AI, many simple white collar jobs are eliminated. But AI can’t change oil and filter in cars.
That is why social networks are critical.
In close knit communities young men would get plenty of legitimate interviews from friends of their family—and usually ended up getting offers.
HR departments screen out qualified candidates. The trick is to get around that barrier to entry.
Try getting an interview for a high tech job on the West coast. If you are not from India you won’t get in the door with a resume.
They don't want to weld or swing a hammer - they want to be Managers and VPs.
Filling out resumes on-line? Loser.
How about walking up to a job site, asking to see the foreman, tell him your name, shake his hand and say you want to work.
Of course, he may start you out cleaning toilets - but make them the cleanest toilets he's ever seen, and you're on your way.
This is a stupid piece from the Koch Industries billionaire heiress. 40 years of DEI pushing out and not hiring men, and white men in particular, might play a role.
“I have a friend that has two well educated sons, that can’t get interviewed, well qualified for jobs in their fields.”
If they are white, heterosexual it is difficult to obtain interviews because of DEI. Even though it’s supposed to be ended, many HR departments have not changed.
Soon this thread will be inundated by smug commenters blaming the young men. That they are not trying hard enough.
Perhaps in many cases that is true.
However with the advent of AI and Robotics in 5 years or so many of these people will be very silent.
Just like this site used to be infested with “free-traders” and now they have gone silent because of the undeniable harm those policies caused.
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Don’t forget the under 30 voters in 2024 was roughly 3/2 for male Trump voters and 3/2 for female Harris voters. That also adversely impacts the male dating prospects.
“they are not trying hard enough”
The trick is not trying hard—it is trying smart.
They just may not have the knowledge/tools they need to get good jobs.
That skill is totally different than being well qualified for a position.
That is almost certainly not their fault since those tips/tricks are not taught at colleges.
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