- more women would lose their jobs (in part because they may not be hooked in enough to internal business networks to recognize or react to signs to get out before layoffs) and/or
- remain in lower paying jobs rather than take a risk during the down term.
Turns out, like most things, there is a lot more to it. At least according to the article Andrea referred me to - "The Slump It's A Guy Think: Men, concentrating on the weaker sectors, are losing jobs in the downturn - while women make gains" by Peter Coy in the May 19th issue of Business Week.
According to the DOL stats Coy sites, from 11/07 - 4/08, women gained nearly 300,000 jobs while men lost nearly 700,000. Good news, sort of. Turns out that "while they are getting more jobs, their pay is stagnant," and "even though men have done worse on jobs lately, they continue to earn more than women on average" with men making up 75% of the people who make over $100,000 last year. And the pay gap "actually widened a bit over the past year."
