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Sex Still Matters
By Ron | March 5, 2010
Sex still matters; I guess. 78% of the jobs lost in this recession were held by the male sex while, at the same time, women’s wages rose 1.2% .
Roxanne Rivera wrote an article describing why women have fared better during these difficult times. She gave a variety of reasons for her opinion:
Women multitask and work harder than men because they feel that they have to. They do not measure their self worth by their jobs. They build stronger support networks, do business by relationshiops and aren’t aftaid to tighten their belts. Women lead by consensus and know how to strenghen their bench. They also are not afraid to ask for advice.
Wow. I know a lot of guys who lost their jobs and they aren’t faring well, but neither are the women.
Being in the Human Resources field for some time, I’ve gotten very weary of articles, books and other media that separate us more than unite us. I thought by now we would be blind to color, gender, and whatever else that makes us look different from others. Well, so much for this fantasy becoming a reality. What a shame.
Topics: HR | 2 Comments »
March 5th, 2010 at 12:46 pm
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March 29th, 2010 at 11:52 am
Wow – I don’t know if Roxanne’s article really captures everything. I doubt that men are being laid off so much more than women because of performance issues… Men traditionally have made more than women (and still do), and so they are larger costs to cut; the construction industry has been hit hard, and I would assume a vast proportion of construction workers are men; etc.