Comments on: Are Men Now Permanently Less Employable Than Women? http://sierravoices.com/2010/02/are-men-now-permanently-less-employable-than-women/ Just another WordPress weblog Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:26:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Whatever Happened to the Men’s Movement? : Sierra Voices http://sierravoices.com/2010/02/are-men-now-permanently-less-employable-than-women/comment-page-1/#comment-698 Whatever Happened to the Men’s Movement? : Sierra Voices Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:56:59 +0000 http://sierravoices.com/?p=2652#comment-698 [...] live in hard times, and lately it’s been harder on men, who have been suffering higher rates of unemployment than women in this Great [...] [...] live in hard times, and lately it’s been harder on men, who have been suffering higher rates of unemployment than women in this Great [...]

]]> By: depelton http://sierravoices.com/2010/02/are-men-now-permanently-less-employable-than-women/comment-page-1/#comment-466 depelton Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:47:33 +0000 http://sierravoices.com/?p=2652#comment-466 Hm ... the late seventies early eighties was about the time that my wife and I permanently gave up the idea of "sharing the breadwinning" (in which we would each work part-time to support our family of four, our vision of perfect gender equality) and accepted that we would both be working full-time for the long haul (which, come to think of it, has also been perfect gender equality). That was also about the time that the war on the middle class began in earnest, marked famously by Reagan's firing of the air-traffic controllers, and continued under Clinton with the insane trade policies that have led to the disastrous reduction in US manufacturing. That was also just about the precise moment in our history when rising worker productivity for the first time did not lead to an increase in worker real-wages, but led instead to a significant increase in inequality, and -- with the dismantling of banking regulations -- to a succession of economic bubble crises, the bottom of the most recent of which we are still approaching with agonizing slowness. Hm … the late seventies early eighties was about the time that my wife and I permanently gave up the idea of “sharing the breadwinning” (in which we would each work part-time to support our family of four, our vision of perfect gender equality) and accepted that we would both be working full-time for the long haul (which, come to think of it, has also been perfect gender equality).

That was also about the time that the war on the middle class began in earnest, marked famously by Reagan’s firing of the air-traffic controllers, and continued under Clinton with the insane trade policies that have led to the disastrous reduction in US manufacturing.

That was also just about the precise moment in our history when rising worker productivity for the first time did not lead to an increase in worker real-wages, but led instead to a significant increase in inequality, and — with the dismantling of banking regulations — to a succession of economic bubble crises, the bottom of the most recent of which we are still approaching with agonizing slowness.

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