Quote from 1prometheus:
A few thoughts:
1.) Men tend to work in more economically sensitive areas with a higher level of variable income. Examples include construction, real estate, wall street, even trading (though there are very few of us). These areas are more sensitive to economic conditions.
2.) I would bet a higher % of men are in the private sector, while more women are in sectors funded by the state, like healthcare and education. Once again private sector jobs based on real consumer spending and not transfer payments are more sensitive to the economic conditions.
3.) The modern corporate workplace is largely a hoax.
I have spent most of my adult life as some type of entrepreneur. However, for 3 years I was an employee at a large corporation. It was eye opening to say the least.
In large organizations it is almost axiomatic that 10% of the people do 90% of the work. The 90% of the work is usually being done by a white, asian, or indian male. The "Others" are usually fluttering about making things take 2X to 3X longer than they should.
Most corporate employees are basically welfare recipients. There is so much red tape, bureaucracy, workplace rules, affirmative etc today, that most of what people do is a paper shuffling hoax. Large corporations are best thought of as for-profit sectors of the federal government.
I noticed that many men in the workplace understood this fact while the women were completely "on board" believing what they were doing was actually important. For this reason, many jobs ARE in fact more suited to women, because it is easier to be deluded every day than to be cynical every day.
4. Anti-male bias: As the modern workplace has become largely non-productive, the environment has been feminized: "inclusiveness", "group participation" "affirmative action" (hire anyone but a white male), etc. Being in such pussified environment made my skin crawl. I honestly think many Men, outside of sex and sex based relatiohships such as marriage, just would prefer not to interact with most women, as they tend to be irritating. This is certainly true for me.
So far as a workplace, give me a team of crazy guys and we will do 10X the work in half the time as one of these "inclusive" teams where half the time is spent on bitch sessions and group hugs. But wait, that is not allowed anymore.
Folks, most office-work is in fact bitch-work. The fact the government has made it this way says nothing bad about men. Men, in fact, were the ones that created the technology and factors of genuine production that made the bitch-work society possible. It is largely a product of Feminism (which itself was a product of technology, ie birth control and technological aids making housework much easier).
When all those millions of women went into the workplace wanting "safe, good paying" jobs, they had to make a bunch of laws so that they would have something to do. (For example the field of "social work". Most people do not realize the field was created so that middle and upper middle class women would have, "something to do". It had very little do with actually "helping the poor" the real beneficiaries are the people getting all the paychecks. In fact, "social work" needs poor, disorderly individuals in order to exist, so it is not surprising the programs tend to in fact expand poverty and learned-helplessness. )
Don't get caught up thinking this is somehow important, it is not. Find a niche and mine it, do not worry about anything else. As for the bigger picture: As our society becomes more fragmented there may in fact be opportunities to improve things.
^^ if you understand ) it will ( I hope ) be a strong enough Wake Up call for these suckers ( but too late... ahahhah ) ...