May turned out to be a very good month for America’s working women. A new report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has revealed that more than half of new jobs gained in the United States last month went to women.
After reviewing the numbers, Chabeli Carrazana of nonprofit newsroom The 19th reported that “overall, 559,000 net jobs were added in May, a sign of a modest rebound after a disappointing April that came in far below economists’ projections.”
Of those new positions, 56%, or 314,000 new jobs, were filled by women. In contrast to April 2021, when 165,000 women left the workforce, the numbers in May were drastically different, with 204,000 women reportedly rejoining the labor force. The gender divide in May also turned in the other direction, with 151,000 men exiting the workforce (meaning that they had become unemployed and had stopped looking for work altogether).
