US economy lost 140,000 jobs in December and all of them were held by women
CNNWire A year ago, a rare thing happened to American women.
For three months, [women] held more jobs than men in the U.S. economy - something that had only occurred one other time in history during a short period in 2009 and early 2010.
Sure, there were still many other gender gaps: women were more likely than men to work part-time, for example, because of caregiving responsibilities at home, and even among full-time workers, they earned on average only 81 cents for every dollar of their male peers.