Men's wages still struggling to recover from recession - latimes.com

captainregularr · 2012-04-27T18:36:17+00:00

Average wages for women remain lower than those for their male counterparts, by nearly 20%. But men's wages have been much slower to rebound from the effects of the recession, which had its most severe impact on male-dominated industries, such as construction, the study found.

I hate this comment. It's skewed.

TracyMorganFreeman · 2012-04-27T18:59:44+00:00

70-80% of jobs lost during the recession were held by men, primarily in the industry sector.

The "jobs bill"(American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009) after women's groups got wind of it and lobbied hard, had large portions of go towards women dominated industries, despite those particular industries not being hit hard at all.

Funnily enough, the intent of the act includes:

To assist those most impacted by the recession.

So of the 831billion dollars, let's see how much went to men's industries and how much to women's(oh and women are majority of government workers too IIRC)

Men's:

Infrastructure investment: 105billion

Transportation: 48billion

Water/Sewage/Public lands: 18 billion

Communications, Information, Security: 10billion

Energy: 21billion, 27billion-48billion

Scientific research: 8billion

Law enforcement(not sure why it wasn't in the security portion) 4 billion

Total: 241 billion

Women's

Child tax credit: 15billion

College tax credit 14billion

Healthcare: 155 billion

Education: 100 billion

Food stamps/Social security(women are the vast majority of recipients): 34billion

Government building/facilities 7billion

Child support enforcement: 1billion

Total: 326 billion

The rest to my knowledge helped both sexes roughly equally, although was unsure aboot the housing chunk.

Women's wages have recovered quicker because there was less to recover and they still received more help.

Tobislu · 2012-04-27T20:20:33+00:00

Average wages for women remain lower than those for their male counterparts, by nearly 20%.

I'm annoyed that they didn't explain why, as opposed to reinforcing the wage gap myth.

Title	Men's wages still struggling to recover from recession - latimes.com
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Date	April 27, 2012 12:37 PM UTC (14 years ago)
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