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Are men more prone to recession effects than women?
Jun 8 2009, View Point

Recession has an overall effect and everybody is affected badly in some ways or the other. However, there is one demographic that seems to have been hit less hard by job losses overall: women. Even when it’s true that women unemployment has gone...

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