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Unemployment pushes more men to take on female-dominated jobs

  • Written by Jill Yavorsky, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina – Charlotte
Men make more money in women-dominated fields, such as teaching.Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock.com

In the last few decades, many high-paying jobs that are mostly done by men – like manufacturing – have contracted or disappeared. At the same time, many jobs in fields dominated by women – like education and health care –...

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