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To: A_Former_Democrat
Ok but one might also argue “The Mommy Factor” skews these stats. Even if the college numbers are true, can’t the “78% of jobs lost belonged to men” be a reflection that after it’s all said and done, males still dominate the workplace?

No, and I'll prove it with a simple example:
Consider a population where there are a million workers and all of these workers except 78 are female.
Now we apply the layoff such that all 78 males plus 22 females are laid off; this has *eliminated* the entire male workforce in this scenario, yet it is still true that “78% of jobs lost belonged to men.”

QED

41 posted on 03/06/2011 10:52:21 AM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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To: OneWingedShark

But that’s not the real world. That would be like if the NBA eliminated some franchises, someone could say, well that’s not fair, as 80% of the “layoffs” were black. In a male dominated workplace, layoffs are going to be disproportionately male, especially since they occupy the highest paid positions. In order for layoffs to disporportionately affect females, they would have to occur at the admin/nursing/teaching spots, etc where females tend to dominate.


57 posted on 03/06/2011 12:01:48 PM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Celebrate 'Civility'")
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