Men dropping out of the workforce at greater rates

a href=”http://www.forbes.com/2009/04/09/employment-men-women-recession-opinions-columnists-gender-roles.html”Forbes:/a blockquoteMen are not merely becoming unemployed in greater numbers than ever before. They are actually dropping out of the labor force at greater rates than before, which is different….br /br /In March 2009, the BLS reported that 1,162,000 women and 1,238,000 men had shifted from “looking” to “stopped looking” in the preceding month. So not only are men and women now exiting the labor force at roughly equal rates, but if current trends continue, men will start doing so even more. The increase in the number of women dropping out from December 2007 to March 2009 was 38%. The increase in the number of men dropping out was 90%./blockquote