Men recovering more quickly from ‘mancession’ than women

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:

The so-called mancession saw the number of employed men plummet by 5.21 million from November 2007 through December 2009, according to Labor Department data as industries including manufacturing and construction were hard hit. Meanwhile, the number of working women sank by a much smaller 1.95 million.

But from May 2010 through May 2011, the script flipped. The number of employed men jumped by 686,000, while employment of women fell by 85,000.