Catherine Rampell offers this informative chart that I read as demonstrating that for all the talk of a “mancession” and such, we’re primarily looking at long-term shifts in the gender composition of the labor market:
By all accounts I’ve heard, future job growth is predicted to be disproportionately concentrated in the health and education sectors. If so, either the traditional tendency of those sectors to disproportionately employ women or else traditional ideas about gender roles within a family will have to shift.
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