[MNJohnnie]

Simple rule of thumb in analyzing statistics. Life is a bell curve, most of it happens in the middle. When you see someone throwing around statistic that go way out to one extreme or another, they are most probably lying. When you see a statistic that claims "83.1 of X" you can figure they either have made up a complete meaningless factoid that sounds vague and alarming or that they simply made the number up.

Claiming, out of a work force that is roughly 50-50 men to women that 83% of the jobs lost in the last 9 month came wholly from one group is one of those statics you can look at and say "total BS". It is not reflected anywhere in the hard data. They simply made an assumption and started screaming it. The fact is, in the modern work force, NO "industry" is wholly male or female dominated. It another made up "Fact" spewed forth by the same people who bring you pseudo sciences like "Women Studies"

[wardaddy]

show me an article that supports your claim that the plethora of news articles I linked from varied sources are all lying.

i have no agenda on this one and am very anti-women’s studies sorts of stuff but I simply typed in the claim and gots at least 40 magazine and newspaper articles claiming that men are around 80% of the layoffs in this recession and that historically more men than women lose jobs in downturns for several obvious reasons

just simply find some source that supports your notion and we can compare that against the evidence I posted from just 5 minutes gleaning

here..WTH, I will do it for you:

for google.....”more women than men laid off in US recession”

hit search button...hmmmmm.

nothing really....just an article from NYT still talking about the 80% figure and how women are suffering more since they are now the breadwinner...lol...but I thought that was what fembots wanted....let me know if you find something to bolster your notion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/business/06women.html