Women Now A Majority In Workplace

For the first time in recorded history women outnumber men on nation's payrolls -
New York Times

The New York Times is calling the recession a "man-cession" being that more men are unemployed than women during these times. Last month women held 50.3% of nonfarm payroll jobs and only 3.9 million women have lost jobs versus the 7.4 million men. I think if there ever was a time to prove our strength and to promote women equality, now would be the best time ever. It wasn't too long ago when women weren't even allowed to work and even though we are proving that we are just as capable as any man, we are still getting treated unfair. Today women make only about 77 cents for every dollar a man makes. For minority women it is even worse. Asian American women make 88 cents, African American women make 72 cents and Latina women make 60 cents.This doesn't make sense to me at all, especially during times like these with these kind of statistics. If the majority of the workforce today is women, then it is true that women are partially holding up the economy and still being treated as subordinates. Some say this recent rise in women working is due to seasonal men work,such as construction,being down right now during the winter. They also try to say that more women are working because they tend to choose jobs that withstand financial downturns such as government, healthcare and education while men choose usually choose business and manufacturing which rise and fall with the economy. In my opionion, I still stand firm on my belief that women are not receiving the amount of credit, pay or respect they should be getting.