[tamimio]

Now I want to see the males/females ratio in that graph, I bet most of the unemployed are males, which is something weird I noticed where everyone who’s complaining about the job market are men, meanwhile women are hired and sometimes working two jobs on top of that.

[epistasis]

The difference is only 11% of men versus 10.5% of women age 16-24 (PDF):

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/youth.pdf

[peyton]

How is that relevant? From TFA:

> By early 2026 recent grads sat at 5.6% unemployment

Which seems very far from your numbers.

[epistasis]

It's some actual BLS numbers from the same age range, instead of anecdote filtered through the algorithm of social media feeds.

[tamimio]

That’s probably seasonal/part time/temp jobs given the age bracket, which is another something I noticed, there’s barely any deep studies across the ages. I think there are multiple reasons why females are more employed, but on top of them is the rise of service and nurturing economy (services healthcare etc) compared to other sectors, and these industries are dominated by women, and since there’s a general decline in general in say production or manufacturing, these economies boom, I mean, who’s gonna take care of boomers who dominate the wealth in general?

[Telemakhos]

You're getting downvoted because people don't like what you say, but NPR had a piece confirming this just this April:

https://www.npr.org/2026/04/10/nx-s1-5773327/women-men-jobs-...

> Of the 369,000 jobs the Labor Department says were created since the start of Trump's second term, nearly all — 348,000 of them — went to women, with only 21,000 going to men. That's nearly 17 times as many jobs filled by women as by men.

In short, healthcare is the only field adding lots of jobs, and healthcare workers are something like 80% women. Men who are pursuing non-healthcare educational paths are much less likely to find a new job created for them; they'll have to compete for existing, filled jobs.

[ashdksnndck]

> Of the 369,000 jobs the Labor Department says were created since the start of Trump's second term, nearly all — 348,000 of them — went to women, with only 21,000 going to men. That's nearly 17 times as many jobs filled by women as by men.

This presentation of the stats sounds really misleading to me.

Let’s say there were 10 million quits and 10.369 million hires in that period.

5 million quits and 5.021 million hires among men.

5 million quits and 5.348 million hires among women.

In that case, yes it’s true that employment among women improved more than employment among men. No, it’s not true that an unemployed woman was 17x more likely than a man to find a job.

[tamimio]

Thanks for sharing that! It’s something I noticed both online and IRL, it’s only guys (especially young ones) who are crying about the job market, I actually don’t know a single jobless female, all of them are working, and I know plenty who works two jobs!

Regarding the downvotes, I really don’t care about the fake online currency, I think their impact is negative in creating echo chambers in communities, and for some reason bringing men struggles is a taboo despite they suffer far more than women, suicide rates are clear example.

[watwut]

Yeah, that is why we talk exclusively about male loneliness despite loneliness per gender being the same statistically.

The whole current gop/conservative thing was to talk about manufacturing jobs. And current admin did their best to push women out of labor force and army/goverment career positions. They failed overall, because they are morons economically, not because they would favor women. Men were all the focus and the supposed recipients of advantages.

And if you want to talk about successfull suicides you will need to talk about gun ownership. Because that is a big reason men are killing themselves more succesfully - they are more likely to have the gun handy.

Male problems are talked about constantly. The issue is that some fairly large ones are tied to powerful industries like, hell, gambling and guns. And attacking those is treated like attacking masculinity itself, creating a cycle.

[Mallory_Ringess]

I have no idea whether this is true but it is an interesting question which the knee-jerk downvote brigade should have left alone. Is this information available somewhere? As far as I know the majority of college graduates in all but the STEM fields is female now, there's only a few disciplines which are still majority male. Given this fact it would be expected that unemployment among female college graduates should be higher, not lower than that of men if companies were to aim for a 'fair' distribution between men and women in their workforce given that there will be more women vying for the 'female share' of the pie.

[dudul]

I like posts like this one because they are completely reasonable, perfectly accurate and easy to prove with links to articles, etc, and yet get downvoted because they dare to question TheMessage. HN resisted a long time compared to Reddit&Co but it eventually fell to the echo chamber syndrom.