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by Telemakhos 5 days ago
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.

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> 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.

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.

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.