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October 4, 2010

NATION & WORLD

"Mancession" brings new majority to the workforce: women
By RACHEL METEA,
Nation & World Editor
“Mancession” is the new nickname being
thrown around for the recession that began
in 2007. The nickname stems from the vic-
tims of job loss in the recession—mostly
men.
Men account for 75 percent of the labor
market that have lost jobs since 2007, ac-
cording to a 2009 report by the U.S. Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics. Most of those jobs
lost had been in fields such as manufactur-
ing and construction.
This year, for the first time in American
history, women make up a majority of the
workforce in highly paid managerial and
professional positions, holding down the
fields at 51.4 percent, according to the U.S.
Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Over a five-month time period in 2008,
nearly 700,000 American men lost their
jobs while women gained close to 300,000
jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor
Statistics. While only 3 percent of the For-
tune 500 CEO list were women, last year
female CEOs out-earned their male coun-
terparts by 43 percent and on average, re-
ceived bigger pay raises.
According to the James Chung of Reach
Advisers, who spent over five years ana-
lyzing data from the Census Bureau’s
American Community Survey, in 147 of
the 150 biggest U.S. cities, the median
full-time salaries of young women are
eight percent higher than those of men in
their age group. In Atlanta and Memphis,
young women are making about 20 percent
more. In New York City, Los Angeles and
San Diego, they are earning roughly 15
percent more than young males. However,
this only holds true for childless, unmar-
ried women under 30.
The study found that the cities where
young women were out-earning men were
in places that either had primary local in-
dustries that were knowledge-based or
Since the mid-'80s, women have continued to outnumber men in colleges
and universities.
Graphic courtesy of MCT Wire Service
were manufacturing towns where indus-
tries had shrunk. Cities where men out-
earned young women were places that
tended to be built around industries that
were heavily male-dominated, such as mil-
itary-technology or software development.
Of the 15 jobs that are projected to grow
over the next decade, men are the major-
ity in two of them: janitors and computer
engineers. Women dominate the remaining
13 in jobs such as nursing or childcare.
“We need to look at how we are raising
our sons and daughters,” said Chicagoan
Veronica Arreola who runs the blog, Viva
La Feminista. With most of the fastest
growing jobs in nurturing professions,
Graphic courtesy of Rachel Metea
Arreola said, “If we are we telling them
that only women are caretakers, then only
women will go into nursing. We need to
get to the point where male nurses are re-
spected as much as male doctors.”
While not all of these jobs are essentially
high paying, they can lead towards a steady
accumulation of working women.
But not all believe this is good economi-
cally. “Who said that being a home health
assistant is a good job? It is a very low pay-
ing job,” said Dr. Claudia Goldin, the di-
rector of the American Economy program
at the National Bureau of Economic Re-
search, “Just because a sector is growing
does not mean that it has lucrative jobs.”
While women have surpassed men in the
workforce as a whole, in some fields their
numbers are declining. In finance, 2.6 per-
cent of women have disappeared from the
industry while men have grown by 9.6 per-
cent, finds the U.S. Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics.
At the same time that blue-collar jobs his-
torically done by men are becoming hard
to find, higher education is being dominat-
ed by women. This is giving way to a new
dynamic in the white-collar workforce.
Thirty years have passed since women
started to receive more bachelor’s degrees
then men. Since then, the gender gap in
college enrollment has continued to grow.
At DePaul University, only 41 percent of
last year’s entering freshman class were
male.
“We were just held back for so long, it was
a pressure building up,” said Arreola. “On
some level, women know that they need
this college degree to even survive in this
economy,” said Arreola.
As the proportion of male and female col-
lege enrollment continues to grow, instanc-
es of an affirmative action-type method
have quietly begun to spring up. Several
schools such as the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill have asked if it is
time to institute affirmative action for men.
Being male raises the chance of college
acceptance by 6.5 to 9 percentage points in
selective liberal-arts schools, found econo-
mists Sandy Baum and Eban Goodstein in
a 2003 study.
In December, the U.S. Commission on
Civil Rights said it would investigate
whether some colleges were discriminat-
ing against women in admissions by ad-
mitting males at a higher rate or by offer-
ing them more generous aid packages.
Title IX of the Education Amendments
of 1972 bars gender discrimination in all
education programs at institutions receiv-
ing federal funds. But this does not apply
to private institutions.
In a 2006 Op-Ed piece to The New York
Times, Jennifer Delajunty Britz, who was
on the board of the admission committee at
Kenyon College, confessed that qualified
female applicants were given hesitation
in the admittance process based on their
gender alone. When recalling a women
applicant that was over-qualified in every
realm except her middle-of-the-pool test
scores, Britz wrote, “We had to have a
debate before we decided to swallow the
middling scores and write “admit” next to
her name. Had she been a male applicant,
there would have been little, if any, hesita-
tion to admit.”
“Rest assured that admissions officers are
not cavalier in making their decisions,”
wrote Britz.
The growing gender gap in college enroll-
ment has led many to speculate what is to
come next in the workforce.
“Women will go into jobs that require a
college education and fewer men will be
able to,” said Goldin. “But there is a lot
of retooling and retraining that goes on.
Males mature later and many will realize
at age 40 that they need better tools.”
American women are now the breadwin-
ners or co-breadwinners in two thirds of
American households. In a survey con-
ducted by The New York Times, when jobs
are scarce, 85 percent of people polled in
the U.S. believe that men should not get
priority for jobs.
“Part of my Christian upbringing in a pre-
dominantly Christian nation is that God
is the head of man and man is the head of
the household,” said Mustafaa El-Scari, a
program specialist for the Administration
for Children and Families. “There are very
few men in the nation that can ask their
wives to stay at home because they don’t
have the financial resources to do so.”
“The lines have been blurred over jobs
that are supposed to be for men and sup-
posed to be for women,” said El-Scari who
heads support groups for men that are late
or delinquent on child support payments.
Since 2008, El-Scari said his support
groups for men have seen a dramatic in-
crease in enrollment.
The recession has made stay-at-home
dads a reality, said Arreola. “Hopefully in
the future, men will know they have the
choice to stay at home or work. With the
increase of women in the workforce, they
will also know that they have that option.”
With a country composed of a growing
male population who do not hold college
degrees, and a recession that has dimin-
ished many blue-collar jobs, people are
beginning to speculate what is to come for
the American workforce.

"Pope's apology" continued from cover

bring the church’s reputation back to a more positive
outlook without solving the problem.
But not all believe the pope’s apology wasn’t genuine.
“Pope Benedict XVI took a stance of repentance and
remorse,” said Cassarella. Having met the pope multiple
times throughout his career, Dr. Cassarella said he knows
the pope’s theology and shares the same idea of the church
always being in reform.
Roberto Francísco Oscár Valentín, a freshman education
major who identifies himself as a Roman Catholic, said, “I
think it is an admiral act of the pope to have apologized for
the clergy’s actions,” said Oscár. “I believe, as a Catholic
university under the papacy, DePaul should accept the
Pope’s apology and admire his goal for better relations
with people and the church.”
“It’s not like I am not going to accept the pope’s apology,
because he is just recognizing the problem and offering
his condolences for the actions of the clergy,” said Kiara
Harden, a junior majoring in biology. “However, I think
the apology should be coming from the offenders, and the
pope’s apology does not right the wrong.”
“I don’t accept the pope’s apology because the pope is
being used as a scapegoat,” said freshman digital cinema
production major Sarah Jeanne Perry. “The person who
committed the crime should be the one to apologize-
not the pope. After committing a crime like that, that
clergyman should not be affiliated with the Church.”
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This Week in World News

6Zimbabwe's
HARARE, Zimbabwe -
president on Thursday
told foreign investors that they must
accept black Zimbabweans as the
major shareholders in their projects
— or stay away from the southern
African nation.
Strict empowerment laws
scheduled for phased enforcement
over the next five years require black
Zimbabweans to control 51 percent
of each business.
At the funeral of a veteran leader
in his ZANU-PF party Tuesday,
Mugabe acknowledged the laws
may deter potential investors, but
said anyone who wanted to share
the nation's resources "must get our
permission to do so, in the manner
we define" or stay away.
"We have the skills and we are
saying we use these skills now as
owners, not as managers," Mugabe
said.
Zimbabwe is rich in farmland and
minerals. Mugabe's statements
come more than a month after
Zimbabwe sold its first batch of
some 900,000 carats of diamonds,
ending a nine-month ban. The 2006
discovery in Zimbabwe of one of
one of the biggest diamond finds
in southern Africa in a century has
generated great interest.
Mugabe said Masawi, a political
commissar in his party's Soviet-
era style politburo, fought against
colonial dominance and Western
foes still seeking ways, including
investment, to re-establish their
influence in the country.
1 LUCKNOW, India (left) -
Hindu holy men listen to radio news
on the Ayodhya verdict in Mathura,
India, Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010.
For 150 years, Hindus and Muslims
both claimed a site that is sacred to
their religions, which triggered some
of the worst rioting in India's history.
On Thursday, a court came up with
a compromise: Split it.
Both sides said they would
appeal, and the muted reaction
to the potentially explosive
verdict generated hopes that the
increasingly confident country,
with its growing regional clout and
skyrocketing economy, has moved
beyond its divisive history.
"(This) shows that we have
become a mature nation," said
Kamal Farooqui, a member of the
Muslim Personal Law Board.
In advance of the ruling, the
government sent hundreds of
thousands of police into the streets,
arrested more than 10,000 people
to keep them from inciting violence,
and pushed another 100,000 to sign
k affidavits saying they would not
cause trouble.
l j n The dispute over the religious site
in the city of Ayodhya, 350 miles
(550 kilometers) east of New Delhi,
m has been one of the country's most
contentious issues.
Hindus argued that the Babri
o Mosque erected there by Muslims
in 1528 stood on the site of the
birthplace of the Hindu god Rama,
and they filed suit in 1950.

5chubby-faced
North Korea - North Korea introduced its heir to the world Thursday, a
young man with a serious expression, combed back hair cut
high and tight on the sides and wearing a communist-style black suit.
On Tuesday, North Korea's totalitarian regime lifted the curtain slightly on
plans for a successor to ailing leader Kim Jong Il, with an announcement that
his son had been named a four-star general.
However, the decision shortly before the country's biggest political conference
in 30 years raised fears of possible future turmoil in the "Hermit Kingdom."
The secretive government didn't say how or when the younger Kim Jong Un,
thought to be 27 or 28 years old, might assume power.
Kim Jong Un's lack of experience and his junior family position as his father's
third son have caused experts to worry that the transition could be rocky if
the elder Kim, who had a stroke in 2008, were to die soon. Even the basic
facts about Kim Jong Un remain unknown, including his birth year, his recent
activities and what he looks like.
His youth is "a big problem, but there's no other choice right now," said Jiang
Longfan, a professor at the Northeast Asia research institute of China's Yanbian University, not far from
North Korea. 2wouldNEW YORK - New York City is pursuing a tough new policy that
shoo smokers out of public parks, beaches and even the heart of

4CorreaQUITO, Equador - Ecuador's President Rafael

speaks to the press in the government
palace in Quito, Ecuador, late Thursday Sept. 30,
2010. The army rescued Correa from a hospital
where he had been trapped by rebellious police for
more than 12 hours while he was being treated for
tear-gas fired by hundreds of police angry over a
law that they claim would cut their benefits.
The chief of the national police, Gen. Freddy
Martinez, gave Correa his resignation because
of Thursday's revolt, police spokesman Richard
Ramirez told The Associated Press.
Correa and his ministers called the events — in
which insurgents also paralyzed the nation with
airport shutdowns and highway blockades — an
attempt to overthrow him and not just a simple
insurrection by angry security force members over
a new law that would cut benefits for public
servants.
The region's presidents quickly showed their
support for Correa, rushing to a meeting in Buenos
Aires early Friday and condemning what many
called a coup attempt and kidnapping of Correa.
The U.S. also warned those who threaten Ecuador's
democracy that the leftist Correa has Washington's
full support.
There was no sign on the capital's streets Friday
morning of the rebellious police who had thrown the
country into chaos the previous day.
At least two police officers and a soldier were
killed and dozens injured in Thursday's mayhem,
said Irina Cabezas, the vice president of congress.
Dozens were injured.
Correa, 47, speaking from the balcony of the
Carondelet palace after his rescue, told hundreds
of cheering backers that Thursday "was the saddest
day of my life."
Times Square — one of the most ambitious outdoor anti-tobacco efforts
in the nation.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration and city lawmakers
announced Wednesday that they will pursue a broad extension of the
city's smoking ban to 1,700 parks and 14 miles of public beaches, plus
boardwalks, marinas and pedestrian plazas including Central Park and
the Coney Island boardwalk.
That would mean no smoking if you are lounging in Central Park, the
Coney Island boardwalk, or in Times Square.
3thanWASHINGTON - There may be few pregnancy nightmares worse
finding a lump in one's breast, given the dueling fears that if it's
cancer, treatment could harm the developing fetus, while delay and
pregnancy hormones could fuel a tumor's growth. But a new study finds
that pregnant women treated for breast cancer are more likely to sur-
vive their ordeal than breast cancer patients of the same age who were
not pregnant when their cancer was diagnosed.
Five years after their diagnosis, almost 74 percent of the women
diagnosed with breast cancer during pregnancy were still alive. Among
their sisters who were not pregnant when they got treatment, 55.75
percent survived to the five-year mark. The researchers found some
evidence that the pregnant breast cancer patients fared better on long-
term survival, as well.
Photos and news compiled from MCT Wire services and The Associated Press