“And if you look at the damage early on, you know, most of the early job losses were in construction and manufacturing, and disproportionately affected men. But as the crisis intensified, as it did over the course of 2008 — again, before the president came into office — the damage spread and you saw state and local governments, for example, cut back into teachers, fired a lot of teachers, let a lot of teachers go.
Women Job Losses: A Deeper Look At The Data
Glenn Kessler, Washington Post: Business
Tue, 04/17/2012 - 3:00am
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