Well according to data released just today by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), it would seem that American women participated in the nation’s labor force, in September, at a rate that matched the lowest level in 24 years. You see, from August to September, the number of women holding jobs actually declined by 154,000. But because the number of women participating in the labor force also declined in September, the drop in the number of women who were actually employed did not cause an increase in the unemployment rate for women.
In fact, even though 154,000 fewer women worked in August than worked in September, the unemployment rate for women actually dropped from 6.8 to 6.7 percent. As calculated by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a person participates in the labor force if they are 16 or older, not institutionalized, and either have a job or have actively sought a job in the last four weeks. The labor force participation rate is the percentage of people over 16 in the non-institutionalized population who either have a job or actively sought one in the last four weeks.
Now in September, and again this would be according to the BLS, the labor force participation rate for women stood at 57.1 percent, which was down from the 57.3 percent it was in August and was down further from the 57.4 percent that it was in July. The female labor force participation rate had also dropped to 57.1 percent this March. Prior to this past March and then again in September the last time the female labor force participation rate dropped as low as 57.1 percent was back in February 1989, or for you liberals, 24 years ago.
The BLS has supposedly been tracking the participation of women in the U.S. labor force going all the way back to 1948. An it was in January 1948 that 32.0 percent of the non-institutionalized female U.S. population over the age of 16 participated in the labor force. That percentage generally climbed over five decades, reaching its peak in April 2000 when it hit 60.3 percent. However, since that point in time the labor force participation rate among women has been pretty much on a steady decline.
In August of this year, the female civilian labor force stood at 72,973,000, in September that number dropped to 72,705,000. Similarly, the number of women working in America dropped from 68,005,000 in August to 67,851,000 in September. However, because the decline in the number females in the civilian labor force was greater than the decline the number of females actually holding jobs, the unemployment rate for women actually dropped from 6.8 percent in August to 6.7 percent in September. Are you with me?
Hence we can pretty plainly see how easily the numbers can be manipulated. And its this same scam that’s being executed whenever we hear about how the overall unemployment number is on the decline. If our labor force consisted of the same number of workers that it did when Barry first took office back in 2009, our unemployment rate would up around 17 percent. But because roughly 10 million individuals have now left the workforce, and over that same period of time, Barry gets to claim credit for an unemployment rate of 7.2 percent. What a deal!
Just one final thought here. At the end of the day I can only assume that all of those women who continue to harp about how it’s the Republicans who are at war with women, as they very proudly vote for Democrats, don’t really mind all that much if they can’t find a job, at least as long as they are able to obtain for themselves a steady supply of free birth control. I mean, after all, a girl has got to have some way to while away her days, and apparently for these women, at least, there’s no better way to do just that than to spend all of that time on their back.
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