Why are men vanishing from the work force?

[Nanny Goat]

Cuz women are killing them off? Not intentionally (well usually not). In the 15-24 age group and 55-65 age groups women outnumber men. Starting in their 40's men's rates of cardiovascular disease starts to rise. http://jerrymondo.tripod.com/lgev/id2.html

[mkpunk]

Originally Posted by FBJ

But for some reason women have all the good paying jobs right now. They don't seem to be getting low balled.

Read pvande's post below. I think that one more than the other hurt men very much.

Originally Posted by pvande55

When the economy collapsed, Engineering and Construction, male dominated, fell through the floor. After several years of no work, many turned to Social Security or disability. It is proving hard to get them back after so long.

I know in Arizona, construction is the backbone of the economy with new home building as we as new stores and plants for companies. The recession slowed this to a snail's pace. Company building is up but not yet new home building.

Edit: Also once someone doesn't have a job and cannot find a job, they find it much harder to get back into the working world (partially) because of the availability heuristic.