The Mancession Has Been Hardest On Women

The Mancession has been, in maybe ways, an appropriate moniker for the last few years. With construction and manufacturing - two male dominated industries - particularly battered in the recession, 6.1 million men found themselves unemployed, over double the number of women. But new findings from the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR) / Rockefeller Survey of Economic Security show that recession-era suffering has been largely women's work.

A quarter of the women in this country, and 38 percent of single mothers, struggled to pay for food in the year before they did the survey, compared to 14 percent of men. 44 percent of women, and 52 percent of single mothers, found it difficult to pay for health insurance, as did 32 percent of men. 16 percent of single mothers in this time period have, at some point, gone hungry.

The researchers interviewed 2,746 adults ages 18 years and older in 2010, ending in November, about their economic security in the previous year. They then extrapolated the findings from these half hour interviews to create a grave portrait of the American public in the year after the recession had officially ended. The report is fittingly named: "Women and Men Living on the Edge."

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