[williamdclt]

Congrats on not reading the article I guess? It explicitly points out "the lopsidedness was driven by huge growth in health care, where women hold nearly 80% of jobs". Healthcare has always been women-heavy, this article [1] corroborates the 80% figure of the article. Nothing to do with positive action.

I suspected that within healthcare, women tend to occupy the lower-qualification roles more than the higher-qualification. This article [2] seems to confirm that: women are large majority in roles like nursing, hygienist, technologist but only occupy 44% of physician roles.

So... yeah sounds like despite women getting most new jobs, they're not exactly privileged, just lucky to be in a growing industry.

[1] https://nchstats.com/us-health-industry-jobs/#:~:text=manufa...

[2] https://www.hiringlab.org/2025/08/26/august-labor-market-upd...