It's Not Just a Recession. It's a Mancession! - The Atlantic Business Channel

It's Not Just a Recession. It's a Mancession! - The Atlantic Business Channel

The end result of this, as I have said many times, will be a permanently unemployable and angry male working class. Give it a couple of years and some new Lenin is going to start making a lot of sense to these guys.

What is it that women do that men can't? Other than modeling push-up bras, not very much. What is that women do that men don't? As the article says, work as secretaries and administrative assistants, registered nurses, school teachers, cashiers, retail salespersons and health aides.

There is no reason that men couldn't do these jobs. I worked as a secretary once upon a time. There are a fair number of male nurses, teachers and cashiers and most retail jobs were at one time held by males.

But these are the careers women have gone into during all the long years they were barred from anything else. Jews were barred from anything but banking until fairly recently. So it's no wonder that so many bankers are Jews, and it's no wonder that so many of these listed jobs are held by women.

I have no doubt that, as the article says, the pay disparity between women and men is now working against men. But these listed jobs are all in the service sector - even though health care keeps trying to prove it is not a service business. The jobs that men are losing now are often jobs that created products and, in some cases, ideas. So it shouldn't be comforting even to women that the only place they can get a job is in businesses which produce nothing and simply serve to circulate the same dollar around a community.

And that is a very big problem, and requires thirty pages of Wikipedia.