were male. Professor Perry has the stats. Construction and manufacturing are male dominated and are hardest hit.Link
According to today's BLS report (Table A-1, Household Data), the U.S. economy lost 2.956 million jobs in the last year (Dec. 2007 to Dec. 2008). Further analysis shows that 82% of the job losses (2.413 million) were jobs held by males, and 18% of the jobs losses (460,000) were jobs held by females (see top chart above). Of the 806,000 decline in Decmember employment (household data), 91% of the job losses were male jobs (730,000), compared to a 76,000 job loss for females.
Further, the December unemployment rate for men is 7.9% vs. only 6.4% for women, and the gap in jobless rates between men and women has been increasing for the last eight months
