Going in 2020 it seems that the US economy in general strong – especially for women who hold most of the jobs for the first time in nearly a decade. Women held 50.04% of American jobs from December landless and self-employed, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. That is up from 49.7% a year ago. What is driving the increase in employment of women? The two sectors that have suffered the greatest overall gains, healthcare and retail, both employ many women and that are in part fueled by demand from economically authorized female consumers, says Amanda Weinstein, professor of economics at the University of Akron. Meanwhile, while women have gained greater control of the United States at home spending and entered the workforce in the last century have helped fuel the growth of the service sector, health care, education and the program includes all industries with a lot of jobs for women. In exchange service, such as childcare, home care, and food preparation they have made it easier for women to join the workforce. But economists say that this expectation wider, not the whole story, and the labor force and in society still many women (and men) again. Here are three things to know about women in the world of unemployed job, but many women work in the service sector with low pay that much highly professional, such as including paid doctors. But Aparna Mathur, director of the Family Leave Project American Enterprise Institute-Brookings paid, says that many of the low-paying jobs in the sector, such as home health aides are predominantly occupied by women. In fact, says Mathur that easy a job to maintain financial security is not necessarily guaranteed. While the costs of health care have increased and there is a strong demand for labor for the aging of the population to medical care, they have not increased the wages of low-paid workers in the health sector significantly. This is due in part to the supply of immigrant workers and a high turnover rate. “These are not long-term career for many people, making it hard to imagine is that this would suddenly lead to higher wages for workers in these areas,” says Mathur. Some economists argue that workers who monitor and care for others, such as teachers and home health aides, underpaid in relation to their social importance, because what they do is, as is “maintenance.” “In the past we underestimated because maintenance work was seen as very feminine. And we underestimate women’s work are usually the cure is,” says Weinstein. The enigma child care The high number of women in the workforce conceals the fact that the employment rate for many groups of women is still lower than that of men. (The rate of participation in the civilian labor force for the best older workers (aged 25 to 54) was 76.8% for women in December 2019 compared to 89.2% for men). Meanwhile, women are more likely to work very part time. Mathur said there are indications that women have been forced to choose more flexible working can be part-time and closer to home because they need or expect their families to look after. In part this may be due to the high cost of childcare. spend more than 70% of households over 10% of their income for the assistance, after analysis of Care.com. “We have had a decade in which women were relatively underemployed men,” says Mathur. Guidelines to help ensure families who care at home as a federal paid holiday program is available, more women may free to participate in the workforce, says Mathur. Weinstein says that conventions reevaluate in the workplace and in schools and women could help. For example, the summer holidays 9: 00-16: 00 school and long the school day can make full-time work does not mind having two parents. “We need to support a company that has traded in many ways the staff that we currently have. And we have dual earners,” says Weinstein. Some men fight for the increasing proportion of female employees leaves an open question: What happened to men? male participation in the workforce has generally been declining for decades. Although there was an increase in 2019 only 89.2% of men aged 25-54 in the workforce was in December last year, compared with 97.1% in December 1960. Claudia Goldin, professor of economics at Harvard University, she says that women reap the benefits are better educated than men. However, the labor force participation has actually decreased by men with college degrees. Part of the problem, he says, is that the economy changing some of the men leaves behind. “Some men are not making used in old fields, and are not a great job of moving into new areas. This is certainly true, trained on the population of the college,” says Goldin. In Weinstein considers the same stigma that the maintenance work has devalued men also be discouraged from pursuing traditionally female professions, even though there are more options. begin to see “We men are some of these jobs, but not at the rate we see that women are sectors dominated by men. Not nearly the speed,” says Weinstein. Mathur said that men can remain in the workforce for many other reasons for fighting – including the epidemic of opiate and criminal – and that you need more research to determine what happens. “We need to better understand what is driving the decline,” says Mathur. “These are issues that we consider as the opioid crisis that incarceration disability? I think with men, some of these issues will be addressed in a more restricted labor market. We have already seen the demographics employer outside reaching usually do not want dealing with [these] people who have a criminal record. “
Women are the majority of the US workforce now – but the work of women remain major challenges
