Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees
Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees
Young men are struggling in a slowing job market, even if they have college degrees
Men ages 23 to 30 are discovering that a bachelor's degree doesn't offer the same protection from unemployment that it used to.
Amid a wider slowdown in hiring, the unemployment rate for men ages 23 to 30 with bachelor’s degrees has jumped in recent months to 6% — compared with 3.5% for young women with the same level of education, according to data analyzed by NBC News.
Now, young men with bachelor’s degrees are slightly likelier to be unemployed than young men with just high school diplomas, the analysis found. That’s a recent reversal after decades when young men with bachelor’s degrees had an advantage in the labor market, economists said.
Young women haven’t experienced the same trend; they are still significantly likelier to be employed if they have bachelor’s degrees.
They looked at four groups...
One men and women were equal.
One men had a higher rate of unemployment.
And two where women had a higher rate, so of course they wrote the article about the 25% that showed men were worse off.
Despite the article admitting the reason for that one demographic was men had a substantial lead. Unemployment got worse for everyone, there's just way more men in the heaviest hit industries like IT/tech
Also, under most measures of unemployment, people who aren't looking for work don't count as unemployed, and with the sexism of our society I bet the average researcher would be a bit more willing to just assume a woman wasn't looking for work and that women on average have more opportunities to be stay at home partners. I'm not saying that's the case everywhere, I'm sure there are tons of individual exceptions to it, but I think on the macro level women are probably slightly more prone to dropping out of the labor market in 2025 than men are, at least enough to account for some of this difference.
I think it's more that men tend to pick the highest paying career. And those high paid positions don't keep appearing. Eventually the pace of people getting into the field minus the people retiring is going to surpass the total amount of jobs.
I've always wanted a government jobs report that tries to predict future needs in each industry to guide these teenagers who are expected to pick and commit to a career.
Without any guidance, guys pick the same handful of careers that earn the most, and by the time they graduate there's just literally no open jobs in that field they choose almost half a decade ago.
Women are less likely to value money first, so they're going into fields that remain relatively steady, and that keeps everyone spread out relatively equally.
Like sure, there's guidance counselors, but most of them suck. Especially for public schools.
What do you mean "of course"? In the vast, vast majority of cases, female suffering is given more attention and sympathy than male suffering in the media.
Remember when 11% of killed journalists being women led to a social media campaign from the UN about 'stop targeting women journalists'?
Or when 25% of homeless being women was the focus of articles talking about homelessness?
Or when Boko Haram kidnapping girls generated massive media outrage, while them murdering boys didn't? Even the headlines would make no effort to even mention the sex of it wasn't female: you'd see "schoolgirls" or "girls" for the former, but just "children" or "students" for the latter.
There was widespread outrage about sexism in colleges when women were in the minority of graduates. Today, it's men that are a significant minority, and no one gives a shit.
Suicide rates increasing faster among girls than boys is given more attention than the fact that boys are still four times more likely to do it than girls.
"Of course", indeed.
An angry rant ain't helping...