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Re:The Unemployment Rate for People Like You by netcan on Saturday November 07, 2009 @02:08AM (#927618)
I think that women are more likely to leave the workforce when it is difficult to get a job & enter it when it is particularly attractive. Extended maternity breaks, home makers etc. Leaving the workforce is leaving the graph, neither employed or unemployed.
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Re:The Unemployment Rate for People Like You by alphamerik on Saturday November 07, 2009 @02:50AM (#927643)
Maybe, or perhaps or is because they are white and college educated. After all, white male college graduates between 25 and 44 have the next lowest unemployment rate of any demographic group.
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Re:The Unemployment Rate for People Like You by netcan on Saturday November 07, 2009 @05:57PM (#928435)
Certainly that is the greater effect.

My comment is to describe the remaining discrepancy: Women consistently have a lower unemployment rate across demographics.

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