every single job lost in July went to a woman

every single job lost in July went to a woman yeah yeah that's real everyone The Bureau of Labor Statistics dropped the July jobs report and then the National Women's Law Center told us what's really underneath it all the economy lost 23,000 jobs last month women lost 32,000 of them but men gained 9,000 and it's not just jobs lost it's really who's leaving the workforce entirely right now 165,000 women age 20 and up left the workforce entirely last month and since January 845,000 women have left the workforce and that's more than double the number of men and that same July report showed that workers 55 and older dropped to 36.9% that's down a full point from last year and that's also something that economists are calling a historic exit from the market this is not retirement at the normal pace or age and if you couple that with AARP's reporting that nearly two thirds of workers over 55 have experienced age discrimination at work we have 22% of them claiming that they're actively being pushed out so when older women are leaving the workforce right now they're not just facing a slow market they're also facing employers who default to age based cuts during layoffs whether they admit it or not layer that on top of everything else childcare in the US right now costs more than rent in most major US markets and federal workforce cuts have hit women especially hard and now we have AI in a slow turning market squeezing out those white collar and customer facing roles where women had very high representation I don't think any of this is women opting out this is what happens when the floor moves in every direction at once and it's landing on women who have been in the workforce the longest anyway you can share this with a woman in your life who's struggling to figure out what's going on in their job search right now and you can follow for more if you want the real story about what's going on in the labor market