A LABOR ECONOMIST'S RESPONSE TO HANNA ROSIN'S "END-OF-MEN" HYPOTHESIS

[...]men were concentrated in industries that bore the brunt of the structural and cyclical decline in labor demand.31 Second, the economic returns from the education and skills relevant to these industries fell.32 Last, there was an increase in the economic returns from education and skills relevant to emerging industries and occupations in which men had a smaller presence and women had a greater one.33 From a labor economist's perspective, one net effect of interest is whether these changes led to a convergence in the gender wage gap.34 To model whether the wage gap converged, social scientists use an analytical method called a wage decomposition to summarize changes in male-female labor market differences and quantify the sources of the changes.35 Part I summarizes the major labor market evidence that has been used to support the end-of-men hypothesis. [...]women, not men, are at greater risk of having their occupations offshored. [...]the challenge is as follows: how do we minimize the erosion in employment and earnings prospects of all Americans?