Work for women, unemployment for men? The generation from the market enters the market in two speeds
The Z generation had a difficult start on the labor market. Traditional career paths in industries such as technology, law and public administration are disappearing, and AI disturbs the availability of beginners. Young people begin to question the profitability of university studies and are increasingly being followed by physical work. The American labor market also weakened in July, which indicates a lower demand for employees and a lower share of Americans in the labor market.
However, not all twenty -compatriots have the same difficulties: Men from the generation of Z seeking faster to a professional abyss. Since the time of Pandemia, their unemployment rate is higher than in women, and the dominance of young women in few healthy market sectors can be a key reason.
US unemployment in sex among 20-24 year olds
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US Bureau of Labor Statistics Via Fred / Insider
“Employers stick to current employees, and they in turn do not change their positions. This may hinder the entrance to the labor market to new people,” said Elise Gould, an elder economist at Economic Policy Institute in an interview with the American Business Insider editorial office. She added that “it may be more difficult for men who are looking for a job in sectors where little is currently employed.”
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Women from the generation with dominate in the developing healthcare sector
Women from the Z generation have greater employment stability, partly thanks to the dominance in the professions they are looking for, such as nursing.
Healthcare is one of the few industries that showed an increase in employment in the US in six months ending in July. Hospitality and education – other sectors with a growing number of jobs – are also dominated by women. These data appear when the labor market cools: the US has not reached the forecast 106 thousand. New jobs in July, adding only 73,000, and the unemployment rate increased to 4.2 percent. Data corrections from the previous two months showed that over 250,000 were created. less jobs than previously estimated. The technology and business industries are particularly affected by the slowdown of employment and the increase in exemptions.
BLS data show that IT and business sectors – employing mainly men, e.g. IT specialists, consultants and analysts – belong to those with the lowest increase in employment in 2025. These are also positions most vulnerable to the influence of AI and the so -called “Great flattening”.
Change of net employment in July
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Bureau of Labor Statistics / Insider
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According to the latest analysis of the work statistics office, about 9 out of 10 nurses without a diploma, a qualified nurse and a specialist nurse in 2022 were occupied by women. The number of men entering the profession stopped in 2019–2021 after decades of constant growth. Nursing was one of the fields of study with the lowest index of unemployment, according to the analysis of the New York Federal Reserve Department of 2023.
Semee Lim, 26 years old, spends days looking after infants and supporting new parents in the intensive care unit of newborns in the Tampa region. This is intensive work, but Lim says that her position is always needed.
“I was lucky that my job changes went quite smoothly,” she said Lim, who moved to Florida after the start of her career near the hometown in Maryland. “Nurses are always missing.”
Since graduating in 2021, Lim remembers that she only worked with three nurses.
Percentage of women working in nursing, education and hotel industry
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Allie Kelly / Bureau of Labor Statistics Via 2024 Current Population Survey
As Gould explains, this is not a new trend: young men have long had a higher unemployment rate than young women. But Luka of employment between men and women aged 22–27 with a bachelor's diploma is deepening. The unemployment rate among newly baked male graduates increased rapidly from below 5 percent. up to 7 percent Over the past 12 months – it results from the Financial Times analysis based on data from Current Population Survey of the Population List office. In the case of young women with a diploma, unemployment remained at a similar level.
More and more often young women outweigh men in educational and economic terms. In 1995, a quarter of young men and women had a bachelor's degree, according to the analysis of demographic data by Pew Research Center. Until 2024, 47 percent Women aged 25–34 had a diploma, compared to 37 percent. men. Lending Tree analysis based on data from the US Population Office of 2021 showed that Lonely women had 2.7 million more houses than lonely men.
At the same time, the industries dominated by women tend to pay lower remuneration – even if they offer greater stability of employment. This is a challenge that Lim often thinks about:
“Nursing does not pay as much as I would like, but it is definitely a very satisfying job,” she said. The median initial salary for the nurse was 65,000. dollars a year in 2023, while for computer science – 80,000 hole. Probably the demand for healthcare employees will grow as the Baby Boomers generation will grow. “If we improve working conditions, wages and benefits in sectors traditionally dominated by women, we can attract more men to these professions,” Gould said. “This is not a great philosophy – we just underestimated some types of work for too long.”
The article is a translation from the American edition of Business Insider.
