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NEW YORK, Jan. 12 (UPI) -- The current recession has pushed back U.S. employment faster for men than woman, the Department of Labor reported.
The unemployment rate jumped from 6.8 percent to 7.2 percent, the Labor Department said Friday. Between December 2007 and December 2008, however, the rate has climbed from 4.4 percent to 7.2 percent for men and from 4.3 percent to 5.9 percent for women, USA Today reported Monday.
Jobs held by women in the relatively stable fields of healthcare and education compared with the instability of construction and manufacturing jobs have accounted for much of the discrepancy, the newspaper reported.
Jobs in healthcare and education combined to grow 2.9 percent last year. Seventy-five percent of the workers in those fields are women.
In contrast, men make up 93 percent of the workforce in construction and 72 percent in manufacturing. These sectors lost 1,423,000 jobs last year with construction jobs dropping 8.5 percent and manufacturing jobs shrinking 5.7 percent.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 10 (UPI) --
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved the construction of two new nuclear reactors, the first to be built in the United States since 1978.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Feb. 10 (UPI) --
The last three of 18 new and upgraded F-16 fighter jets from the United States arrived in Pakistan, a report by the Indo-Asian News Service said.
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Local markets will probably not be swamped by waves of foreclosures following the multi-state mortgage settlement announced yesterday. Rather, the huge inventory of one to two million foreclosures will enter markets gradually....
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Doubts about the euro are not subsiding, new leadership or not, rescue plan or not.
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