American women now hold more payroll jobs than American men.
It's not that women took men's jobs—it's that men are opting out of the market.
Fewer are finishing college or looking for work; more are living with parents, gaming and being "stay-at-home boyfriends." @WSJFreeEx: pic.twitter.com/64WXCw2e3j
— Mary Julia Koch (@MJ_Koch) August 14, 2026
98 OF 100 NEW AMERICAN JOBS IN AUGUST WENT TO WOMEN
The economy added 162,000 jobs. Women took 158,000. Men took 4,000.
Past 12 months: women +870K, men -1.5M. pic.twitter.com/GO2r1qKS5l
— LayoffHedge (@LayoffAI) September 5, 2026
Women hold more U.S. jobs than men while male participation keeps falling
https://fortune.com/2026/09/11/women-hold-more-us-jobs-men-earn-less-salary/
Men’s labor-force participation for those 20 and older fell to 69.4% in August, versus 75.8% in August 2006. Fortune reports roughly 7 million fewer men are employed today than in the 1990s.
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