Men have been more hardly hit by job cuts than women. Not that employers have been a little more generous to the women folk. Only that male-dominated sectors like construction and transportation have been more hit by the slowdown, and thus more job cuts among men.
“It’s men that have taken the hit”, said Andrew Sum, director of the Center for Labor Market Studies at Northeastern University in Boston. “It’s been an overwhelmingly male phenomena.”
Of the 2.74 million people who have lost jobs between November 2007 and November 2008, a majority four-fifths were men.