Did you notice Friday’s news that the American jobs boom is proving especially beneficial to U.S. females? For some reason media folk seem focused only on two particular job seekers who tend to look for work in Washington, D.C.Freeman is focusing on women to tweak Democrats.
Nationwide, conditions are highly encouraging. “Women have been driving this year’s improvements in labor force participation,” notes the Journal’s Lev Borodovsky today. “Participation among women aged 25-34 years hit a multi-year high.”
Whether young or old, U.S. women are not just entering the labor market; they are gaining jobs. In the last 12 months, the number of employed U.S. women age 20 years and older has increased by more than 1.6 million, according to the Department of Labor’s household survey.
Labor’s separate establishment survey of employers shows more good news for female job seekers, with women rising as a percentage of the U.S. workforce. At the margin, as America approached the end of year two of the Trump era, it appears the U.S. economy was becoming more hospitable to women relative to men. This doesn’t easily fit into the popular media narrative about our times, so it may soon be lost in a flood of politicized analysis.
Money isn’t everything and not every new job represents a happy story. Some new hires are working by necessity more than by choice. But the overall picture is one of expanding opportunity and the robust job market for women surely exerts a positive impact on many more lives than most politicians will.
Though the latest economic news is particularly good for the gals, the guys also have a lot to celebrate given what can only be considered a blowout month of job creation and rising wages. Outside of government, both sexes seem to be waging a war on the post-2008 new normal.
But there is a larger ironic story here. For the party that theoretically is most concerned about women, minorities and the otherwise marginalized, the past two years have been dramatically better for those groups than the past decade. More women in the labor market and a rising female labor force participation rate which had been in decline since the nineties. Higher African-American employment rates. Higher Hispanic and Native American. Rising working class wages. Declining dependency rates. Rising tax revenue. A strong economy is raising all boats. The communities that they claim to be most concerned about are living better under the politician they most despise who pursues policies they most hate.
As for journalists who make specious arguments made on ideological beliefs, James Taranto has a pretty straight forward refutation.
Let's put this to a test, shall we? https://t.co/FClR4SSCJg
— James Taranto (@jamestaranto) January 4, 2019
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