Such jobs require different skills and more often than not, pay less
Breaking News - It hasn’t been a great time to be a man without a job. The jobs that have been disappearing, like machine operator, are predominantly those that men do. The occupations that are growing, like health aide, employ mostly women.
One solution is for the men who have lost jobs in factories to become health aides. But while more than a fifth of American men aren’t working, they aren’t running to these new service sector jobs. Why? They require different skills, and pay a lot less. They’re also seen as women’s work, which has always been devalued in the American labour market.
The two occupations predicted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to decline most quickly from 2014 to 2024 are locomotive firers, shrinking 70 per cent, and vehicle electronics installers and repairers, down 50 per cent. They are 96 per cent and 98 per cent male.
Of the fastest-growing jobs, many are various types of health aides, which are about 90 per cent female. When men take these so-called pink-collar jobs, they have more job security and wage growth than in blue-collar work, according to recent research. But they are paid less and feel stigmatised.
“The jobs being created are very different than the jobs being eliminated,” said David Autor, an economist at MIT. “I’m not worried about whether there will be jobs. I’m very worried about whether there will be jobs for low-educated adults, especially the males, who seem reluctant to take the new jobs.”
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