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Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force

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Re: Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force

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I find this fairly astounding. The typical stay-at-home parent is the mother and while it's getting closer to parity I don't think it's anywhere near even. For that reason alone I would expect more men in the work force. What are men doing if not working? On disability? Homeless? Retiring earlier?

Why does it have to be even? Why does it matter?

Equal Outcome != Equality of Opportunity.

Unfortunately the two are often conflated in an attempt to imply there is some form of discrimination taking place by people with nefarious motives.

Re: Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force

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The more interesting thing is the distribution of income. I would happily bet that there still is a considerable gap between women on average and men on average and that the total amount taken home by that majority is significantly less than the total amount for the men.

Women tend to choose jobs that pay less.

They're on average more interested in people, so they tend to choose to become nurses, teachers, etc., while men are interested in things and become software developers, engineers, etc.

I have no idea why income HAS TO be distributed equally. Unless you want to force women to become software developers..? But why.

Re: Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force

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Are farm workers excluded because it's easier? Wouldn't matter I suppose just curious.

> obtaining accurate farming employment numbers is complicated by: - Self-employment - Unpaid family employment - Part-time or hobby farmers - Other partnerships https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2019/july/nonfarm-payr...

Isn't the true for other industries as well though, not just farming?

Re: Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force

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I find this fairly astounding. The typical stay-at-home parent is the mother and while it's getting closer to parity I don't think it's anywhere near even. For that reason alone I would expect more men in the work force. What are men doing if not working? On disability? Homeless? Retiring earlier?

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/when-young-...

I dislike this kind of cheap generalization which only look skin deep and don't even try to find common behavior between genders.

Young men spend about an 2 hours on games per day, and the numbers for young women is much lower. Young women however spend about 2 hours more on their phones per day more than men. Something seems very similar here if we look at the two activities together rather then in isolation.

I would instead ask what gendered benefit men get from gaming, and women from doing social activities on their phones, and I would guess the answer has something to do with inter-gender competition and status.

Re: Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force

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I find this fairly astounding. The typical stay-at-home parent is the mother and while it's getting closer to parity I don't think it's anywhere near even. For that reason alone I would expect more men in the work force. What are men doing if not working? On disability? Homeless? Retiring earlier?

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Re: Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force

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I find this fairly astounding. The typical stay-at-home parent is the mother and while it's getting closer to parity I don't think it's anywhere near even. For that reason alone I would expect more men in the work force. What are men doing if not working? On disability? Homeless? Retiring earlier?

This the sort of question economists study, and reading their output may be more informative than forum comments. Keyword is "declining labor force participation rate."

Re: Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force

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I find this fairly astounding. The typical stay-at-home parent is the mother and while it's getting closer to parity I don't think it's anywhere near even. For that reason alone I would expect more men in the work force. What are men doing if not working? On disability? Homeless? Retiring earlier?

Depressed, committing suicide or just doing nothing. But apparently nobody cares.

Or being in prison.

Re: Women now make up the majority of the U.S. labor force

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I find this fairly astounding. The typical stay-at-home parent is the mother and while it's getting closer to parity I don't think it's anywhere near even. For that reason alone I would expect more men in the work force. What are men doing if not working? On disability? Homeless? Retiring earlier?

A lot of them are on disability or in jail.
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