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Only 38.6% of Jobs Added Under Obama Have Gone to Women
April 4, 2014 -- Since President Barack Obama took office in January 2009, the U.S. economy has employed an additional 3,590,000 people, but only 1,386,000 of those people—or 38.6 percent--have been women.
At the same time, women represent 46.8 percent of the national civilian labor force. That means women are getting a smaller share of the jobs being added to the economy (38.6 percent) than their representation in the civilian labor force (46.8 percent). The percentage of the added jobs that have gone to women is even smaller if measured from the post-recession nadir of employment, which took place in December 2009. Since then, only 37.8 percent of the net additional jobs have gone to women.

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The civilian labor force includes all people in the United States 16 or older who are not on active duty in the military, or in an institution such as a nursing home, prison, or mental hospital and who either have a job or have actively sought one in the last four weeks. As of March, the civilian labor force totaled 156,227,000. This included 83,052,000 (or 53.2 percent) men and 73,175,000 (or 46.8 percent) women. In January 2009, the month President Obama was first inaugurated, there were 142,152,000 people employed in the United States, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. As of March 2014, there were 145,742,000—a net increase of 3,590,000 people employed.

The number of additional males employed between January 2009 and March 2014 was 2,204,000—or 61.4 percent—of the total. The number of additional females employed was 1,386,000—or 38.6% of the total. The last recession began in December 2007 and ended in June 2009, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research. In the wake of that recession, employment hit a low of 138,013,000 in December 2009. The 145,742,000 who were employed as of March was 7,729,000 above that December 2009 low.

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Of that 7,729,000 increase in people employed since the post-recession employment nadir, approximately 62.2 percent were men and 37.8 percent were women. When President George W. Bush took office in January 2001, there were 137,778,000 people employed in the United States. Eight years later in January 2009, when Bush left office, there were 142,152,000. Of the 4,374,000 additional people employed during Bush’s full two terms, 1,518,000—or 34.7 percent—were men, and 2,855,000—or 65.3 percent—were women.

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180,000 More Women Unemployed in March
April 4, 2014 -- The number of women who were unemployed in the United States climbed 180,000 in March, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).
In March, there were 4,850,000 unemployed women, 180,000 more than the 4,670,000 American women were unemployed in February, according to BLS. At the same time, the unemployment rate for women rose from 6.4 percent in February to 6.6 percent in March.

To be counted as unemployed, a person must have actively sought a job in the last four weeks and be part of what BLS calls the civilian noninstitutional population (meaning a person is 16 or older and not on active duty in the military or in an institution such as a prison, mental hospital or nursing home). The number of American women who had jobs dropped 133,000 from February to March, declining from 68,458,000 to 68,325,000.

From February to March, the number of women in the civilian noninstitutional population increased by 84,000, climbing from 127,779,000 to 127,863,000. Of those 127,863,000 women in the civilian noninstitutional population, 73,175,000 participated in the civilian labor force, meaning they either had a job or actively sought one in the past four weeks. That put the labor force participation rate for women at 57.2 percent in March--the same as it was in February.

There were also 54,688,000 women who did not participate in the civilian labor force in March, meaning they neither held a job nor actively sought one. That was up by 36,000 from the 54,652,000 women who were not in the labor force in February.

180,000 More Women Unemployed in March | CNS News
 

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