Working-age men have had it rough in postwar recessions, when the economy typically sheds manufacturing and construction jobs. Then, in recoveries, men have been slow to find work as health care and other service-sector industries grow faster and manufacturing jobs shift overseas.
That’s not what happened in this downturn, nor in the nascent recovery. For the first time in decades, men may be the relative winners in this economic cycle...
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