> Is This Driven by Our Failure to Find People with Steroid-Soaked Muscles as Their Principal Skill Something Rewarding to Do?
If/as those rates stabilize more or less close to each other, a possible [optimistic] reading is that labor demand (maybe not necessarily cost) doesn't put as much weight on gender as before.
If/as male rates continue climbing in relative terms above female rates, then an hypothesis could be that economic paterns have shifted labor demand to relatively/previously low-status female-coded jobs or skill sets, and there's a sort of "status stickiness" that has made it harder for males to adjust.
None of that though explains higher education rates for females, though.
A 4D data set of gender x activity x unemployment rate x time would be an interesting way to see what happened first and drove what.
> Is This Driven by Our Failure to Find People with Steroid-Soaked Muscles as Their Principal Skill Something Rewarding to Do?
If/as those rates stabilize more or less close to each other, a possible [optimistic] reading is that labor demand (maybe not necessarily cost) doesn't put as much weight on gender as before.
If/as male rates continue climbing in relative terms above female rates, then an hypothesis could be that economic paterns have shifted labor demand to relatively/previously low-status female-coded jobs or skill sets, and there's a sort of "status stickiness" that has made it harder for males to adjust.
None of that though explains higher education rates for females, though.
A 4D data set of gender x activity x unemployment rate x time would be an interesting way to see what happened first and drove what.
Research & data analysis are ongoing...
Video game consoles followed by online gaming?