RECESSION BRINGS HISTORIC CHANGE TO WORKPLACE DEMOGRAPHICS
Women Now Virtually Half the U.S. Workforce
USA Today writes: Women are on the verge of outnumbering men in the workforce for the first time, a historic reversal caused by long-term changes in women's roles and massive job losses for men during this recession.
Women held 49.83% of the nation's 132 million jobs in June and they're gaining the vast majority of jobs in the few sectors of the economy that are growing, according to the most recent numbers available from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
For the First Time More Women than Men Employed in Canada
The Toronto Star writes: It has finally happened. More Canadian women than men were in paid employment during the first half of 2009, according to Statistics Canada.
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THE RISE OF ACCIDENTAL OR “NECESSITY” ENTREPRENEURS
Despite the recession, the number of the new businesses actually grew in 2008. One recent study found that of the people who had found work after a recent layoff, one in nine had done so by becoming self-employed. Today, many are finding that they are being pushed by the recession into trying things they may have always wanted to do but probably never would have tried otherwise.
From the New York Times: CALL them accidental entrepreneurs, unintended entrepreneurs or forced entrepreneurs. . . The most recent Index of Entrepreneurial Activity by the Kauffman Foundation showed a slight uptick of new businesses in 2008 — a full recessionary year — over 2007. . . Accidental or by design, entrepreneurship is on the rise again this year. LegalZoom.com, the online legal document service, says the number of new businesses it helped to form was up 10 percent in the first half of the year, compared with the period a year earlier.
From the Huffington Post: Much has been written about the entrepreneurial opportunities offered by recessions—companies like FedEx, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft were all formed during downturns. But, entrepreneurship may be naturally ad hoc. Here’s how Nobel Prize-winning tech entrepreneur (and co-founder of Intel) Gordon E. Moore put it: “There is such a thing as a natural-born entrepreneur. . . But the accidental entrepreneur like me has to fall into the opportunity or be pushed into it.”
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UNCLE SAM IS HIRING: BIG INCREASE IN FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HIRING SEEN IN THE NEXT THREE YEARS
Washington Post reports that: The federal government needs to hire more than 270,000 workers for “mission-critical” jobs over the next three years, a surge prompted in part by the large number of baby-boomer federal workers reaching retirement age, according to the results of a government-wide survey being released Thursday.
Here is what the Survey Found:
Among the more than 270,000 new workers the Federal Government is projected to hire in the next three years, there will be:
- 54,114 projected new hires in Medical and Public Health including physicians (all disciplines), nursing, dietician/nutrition, occupational and rehabilitation therapy, radiology, pharmacy, industrial hygiene and consumer safety.
- 52,077 projected new hires in Security and Protection including intelligence analysis, international relations, foreign affairs, security administration, transportation security officer, park ranger, correctional officer and police officer.
- 31,276 projected new hires Compliance and Enforcement including inspectors, investigators (including criminal), customs and border patrol and protection, import specialist and customs inspection.
- 23,596 projected new hires in Legal including attorney, contact representative, paralegal, passport/visa examining and claims examining/assistance.
- 17,287 projected new hires in Administration/Program Management including human resources, equal employment opportunity, management/program analysis, telecommunications and a variety of clerical support activities.
Source: http://data.wherethejobsare.org/wtja/home
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