{"id":58059,"date":"2017-03-16T08:30:48","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T12:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58059"},"modified":"2017-03-16T06:17:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-16T10:17:14","slug":"nyt-op-ed-thomas-edsall-the-increasing-significance-of-the-decline-of-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58059","title":{"rendered":"(NYT Op-ed) Thomas Edsall&#8211;The Increasing Significance of the Decline of Men"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study by the Dallas Federal Reserve published in 2014, \u201cMiddle-Skill Jobs Lost in U.S. Labor Market Polarization,\u201d found that:<\/p>\n<p>While women were hit much harder than men by the disappearance of middle-skill jobs, the majority of women managed to upgrade their skills and find better-paying jobs. By comparison, more than half of men who lost middle-skill jobs had to settle for lower-paying occupations.<\/p>\n<p>From 1979 to 2007, seven percent of men and 16 percent of women with middle-skill jobs lost their positions, according to the Dallas Fed study. Four percent of these men moved to low-skill work, and 3 percent moved to high-skill jobs. Almost all the women, 15 percent, moved into high-skill jobs, with only 1 percent moving to low-skill work.<\/p>\n<p>Men whose childhood years were marked by family disruption seem to fare the worst.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/16\/opinion\/the-increasing-significance-of-the-decline-of-men.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study by the Dallas Federal Reserve published in 2014, \u201cMiddle-Skill Jobs Lost in U.S. Labor Market Polarization,\u201d found that: While women were hit much harder than men by the disappearance of middle-skill jobs, the majority of women managed to<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=58059\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,175,168,98,125,109],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics-politics","category-anthropology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-marriage-family","category-men","category-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=58059"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58061,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58059\/revisions\/58061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}