Gender Roles

I read an article about how there are more more women in the work force than there are men.  Because of the recession there have been many layoffs.  Women have more jobs in healthcare and education, while men have more jobs in construction and manufacturing, which are less needed.  Women have never before been the leading gender in the workforce, but now they are.  The article also said that women's jobs tend to have less benefits.  They may have less healthcare than mens jobs, which may cause there families to have difficulties if the man has no job.  I thought the article was interesting.  I don't think it is good or bad.  Just because there are more women working right now than men, it doesn't mean they have gained even more equal rights, it just means more of them are working.  I don't have any opinion to this article at all.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/06/business/06women.html?scp=4&sq=women&st=cse