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Playinghardball

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Tue Jan 10, 2012, 05:07 PM Jan 2012

Women finally seeing signs of a jobs recovery

The Great Recession of 2007-09 included job losses that were so much greater for men than for women that some dubbed it the “mancession.”

But once the nation went into recovery – meaning the economy was expanding again, albeit slowly – men saw much stronger job gains than women. In fact women actually lost jobs in the first two years of the recovery, while men gained ground, according to a Pew Research Center report.

Now there is evidence that the trend is evening out. Over the past few months researchers have started to see women gain jobs at a pace that is roughly on par with men.

In the last three months of the year, men and women each gained about 206,000 jobs, according to the most recent data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

More at: http://lifeinc.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/10/10077811-women-finally-seeing-signs-of-a-jobs-recovery

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