A big thanks to the NY Times for coining another 'man-something' phrase. If I were Ben Huh, I'd start a new site called 'mancessionfail.org' to mock those who aren't giving mad respect to the recession. Regardless, the point of the article is to let men know that women outnumber them in the economy.
I did get a small chuckle over the sentence in yellow below - 'years' - not just months... friggin years. Maybe even a decade, if we are lucky.
For the first time in recorded history, women outnumber men on the nation’s payrolls.
This benchmark is bittersweet, as it comes largely at men’s expense. Because men have been losing their jobs faster than women, the downturn has at times been referred to as a “man-cession.”
Women’s new majority in the nation’s workplaces comes decades after women first began trading in their aprons for pantsuits in droves, and it reinforces expectations that women will continue on the path to pay parity.
“Important milestones remain to be achieved, but women’s surpassing 50 percent of employment is something that historians will note for years to come,” said Casey B. Mulligan, an economics professor at the University of Chicago who has been tracking the recession’s effects on both sexes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/business/economy/06women.html
Bittersweet? As in "I lost my job now I have to sit at home playing X-Box while my wife works?" Sounds more sweet, less bitter to me.
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