Gender and the labor market

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🗓️ 10 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics offers a glimpse into the gender and racial makeup of occupations in the U.S. workforce. One takeaway from the data: Many jobs are still highly gendered. Guest hosts Amy Scott and Nova Safo get into it. And, we’ll explain why the chickens may be coming home to roost for banks due to commercial real estate vacancies. Plus, we’ll play a heated round of Half Full/Half Empty!

Here’s everything we talked about today:

- “Yellen: It’s ‘obvious’ that empty office buildings will create banking stress and losses” from CNN Business

- “Yellen sees more commercial real estate stress, losses, but no systemic banking risk” from Reuters

- “40% of Lawyers Are Women. 7% Are Black. America’s Workforce in Charts” from The Wall Street Journal

- “Some colleges are bringing back the SAT and ACT requirement” from Marketplace

- “The Hottest New Accessory in LA Restaurants? Your Takeout Containers From Home.” from Eater Los Angeles

- “Coke’s first new permanent flavor in years adds a spicy twist” from CNN

- “Australia Introduces the ‘Right To Disconnect’ For Workers” from The New York Times

- “Taylor Swift props: Who will she sit by, what will she wear and 10 more Super Bowl bets” from The Athletic

We love to hear from you. Send your questions and comments to makemesmart@marketplace.org or leave us a voicemail at 508-U-B-SMART.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody I'm Amy Scott.
0:05.0	Welcome back to Make Me Smart, where we make today makes sense.
0:12.0	It is Friday, February 9th.
0:14.0	Kai and Kimberly are both out today so you're stuck with me and the one and only
0:19.0	Nova saffo. Hide Nova.
0:21.0	What a great person to be stuck with.
0:23.5	Hi Amy, thanks for joining us on the podcast
0:26.0	and on the YouTube's live stream.
0:27.4	It's Friday, and that means it's time for Economics On Tap,
0:30.6	the weekly happy hour episode. my favorite time of the week.
0:35.0	Indeed I feel like we we earned it this week
0:38.0	so today we're gonna do some news of course and we'll take a break and then play a round of half full half empty but
0:44.8	before we get into it Nova what are you drinking? All right this is from a winery in Sonoma Valley here in California, a winery called Letson, and it is a
0:58.2	first blush, Rosie wine gifted to me by a friend and colleague John Beers from the previous shop where I worked
1:05.8	Aijon's France Press. I got it almost a year ago for my birthday. Thank you John and I'm drinking it now and it's delicious.
1:14.6	Well that's nice. So you're not of the opinion that Rosie is only for summer. I
1:19.4	guess if you're in LA you can kind of drink it. It's always summer. It's always rosé time in California.
1:27.4	Yeah, did you feel that earthquake by the way? Are you close enough?
1:30.4	I'm not in the LA area so no I did not but I'm in the Central Valley in the
1:37.1	central part of California and agriculture land at the moment and I did though
1:42.3	see the conversation tech conversations back and forth among our colleagues who were a little
1:49.5	Did you yeah, some were rattled. Yeah, and others were a little rattled. I was, yeah, I thought it was hilarious. It was a four pointer for goodness s-s-sakes. It sounds like nobody was hurt, so that's- I mean, it was a 4.6, I think the yeah I guess to you California that's not something to be rattled by yeah no no
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