(Nov. 5) -- The United States may have officially entered the age of woman.

 

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, this fall, for the first time in U.S. history, women have surpassed men and now make up more than 50 percent of the nation's workforce. In 1967, by comparison, they accounted for just one-third of all workers.

 

Signs of the changing landscape in gender relations are just about everywhere you look:

 

• Double the number of single women are now purchasing homes in America than there are single men.

• Four out of every 10 women are are now their family's primary breadwinner, a sharp increase from past decades.

• The New Hampshire State Legislature is now made up of a majority of women, a first for a legislative body in the U.S., and the number of women in government continues to edge up nationwide.

• Women now account for 30 percent of math Ph.D.s, up from just 5 percent in the 1960s.

• On average, women read nine books every year. Men only read four, and women account for 80 percent of the U.S. fiction market.

• The World Bank recently estimated that the global earning power of women will reach an estimated $18 trillion by the year 2014, up $5 trillion today.

 

"Women really have become the dominant gender," said Guy Garcia, author of "The Decline of Men." "What concerns me is that guys are rapidly falling behind. Women are becoming better educated than men, earning more than men, and, generally speaking, not needing men at all. Meanwhile, as a group, men are losing their way."

 

That seems especially true during tough economic times. While the economy has shed millions of jobs during the recession of 2008 and 2009, men have been three times more likely to lose theirs than women, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

 

Dr. Heidi Shierholz, an economist with the Economic Policy Institute, said that in the case of the recession, there really haven't been any winners in the labor force.

 

"As the economy improves, many of the blue-collar jobs that men hold are likely to return," Shierholz said. "But the longer-term picture is that we're seeing women continue to make relative gains in the workplace. That's not surprising when women are getting good educations and earning solid degrees."

 

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:smug:HarHarHar! Girl Power!!!!!

I don't mind, I work with mostly women already.

This is great news, let's keep it up!

 

Hopefully in another 20 years women will have their legal right to castrate their baby boys firmly upheld by the Supreme Court (it's more aesthetic and easier to keep clean).

Ah nevermind.

This is great news, let's keep it up!

 

Hopefully in another 20 years women will have their legal right to castrate their baby boys firmly upheld by the Supreme Court (it's more aesthetic and easier to keep clean).

 

hahahaha

Aside from the macabre, it's generally good news methinks. But what bothers me is how this information is couched in the belief that everything is some sort of contest. Life is about experiences, and if we boil it all down to net worth, then we've cheapened the things that really matter. Looking at the happiness index, the US has a long long ways to go towards understanding true wealth..

Then the men need to speed up a bit.:rolleyes:

Then the men need to speed up a bit.:rolleyes:

 

Don't worry, no one really considers you a man.

Don't worry, no one really considers you a man.

 

Nobody considers you a human being........................ :rolleyes:

"On average, women read nine books a year. Men only read four"

 

WHATTTTTTTT????

"On average, women read nine books a year. Men only read four"

 

WHATTTTTTTT????

 

Yes, but those books might well be Mills & Boon!!:lol:

The whole book thing,

:wtf:

Are they saying that women are smarter in that sense because they read?

or what?

:wtf: ^ same, i dont understand

I don't read any books,

maybe if i did, i'd understand that

:laugh4:

The whole book thing,

:wtf:

Are they saying that women are smarter in that sense because they read?

or what?

 

Well as I said, it depends what they read!!:rolleyes:

FOUR BOOKS A YEAR?

 

And NINE isn't much better. America is PATHETIC.

I don't read any books,

but I'd say that I'm intelligent. :D

They could be reading erotic novels for all we know.

I don't read any books,

but I'd say that I'm intelligent. :D

They could be reading erotic novels for all we know.

 

That's what I meant by "Mills & Boon".;)

I'd be scared, if i knew what that meant,

Though i had a slight idea :P

Books bore me because they typically don't have new content like the internet does.

 

I recently read a couple of good books, one called "Empire of Debt" (about America) and another one on Complexity Theory.

 

I cannot stand fiction books.

 

Anyway the whole idea that heterosexual women "don't need men" thing has been going on since the 1960s with Gloria Steinem and radical feminism. And women always end up feeling hollow and depressed when they get the corner office, six figure salary, power, etc. without the strong, hairy boyfriend who can pick them up and throw them on the bed.

So then why am I still one of the only girls in the whole trades program at my school? :thinking::(:angry::freak:

 

There may be more women working, but it's because so many of them work crap jobs for bad wages. They aren't getting laid off as much because part timers aren't such a strain on the bottom line.

 

Electricians will generally earn more than secretaries, will have more job opportunities because of all the boomers retiring from trades right now, and will have to spend just as much time in school as someone going into business at a technical college hoping to become a secretary.

So then why am I still one of the only girls in the whole trades program at my school? :thinking::(:angry::freak:

 

There may be more women working, but it's because so many of them work crap jobs for bad wages. They aren't getting laid off as much because part timers aren't such a strain on the bottom line.

 

Electricians will generally earn more than secretaries, will have more job opportunities because of all the boomers retiring from trades right now, and will have to spend just as much time in school as someone going into business at a technical college hoping to become a secretary.

 

...and they're still not satisfied!

 

Nick, you're better off being single. Or dating me!!! I'm close to getting Chris to go gay, it's only a matter of time.

The whole book thing,

:wtf:

Are they saying that women are smarter in that sense because they read?

or what?

they're just stating a fact, interpret it however you wish.

...and they're still not satisfied!

 

Nick, you're better off being single. Or dating me!!! I'm close to getting Chris to go gay, it's only a matter of time.

Oi. Calm down it has nothing to do with you guys and everything to do with women being shortsighted morons who expect too much of themselves.

 

I'm not superwoman or supermom and I never want to be. But many women settle for crappy jobs and second-rate dreams, wind up in a position where they have to stick with them, and then expect too much of themselves to make up for it. And then expect all that of the rest of us.

 

Well not me. I'm getting off the insane bandwagon. There are better ways out there, and they aren't anywhere in the so-called "pink ghettos".