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by epistasis 14 days ago
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

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How is that relevant? From TFA:

> By early 2026 recent grads sat at 5.6% unemployment

Which seems very far from your numbers.

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