NPR This is the indicator from Planet Money. I'm Darren Woods. I'm Weyland Wong and it is Jobs Friday.

It is that time of the month when we dawn our grease-spattered coveralls and we inspect the big engine of the economy

Workers. Yes and the jobs numbers out today were a bit of a disappointment.

Jobs growth in the US slowed to 114,000 new jobs in July

and the unemployment rate slid up to 4.3%.

The economy is downshifting its gears and we can see the share of men with

jobs fell slightly which continues this long-run trend that's mostly been declining

since the 1950s.

That's caused by a number of factors.

One is that the US economy has shifted away from providing jobs

that have historically had more men like manufacturing and the economy has moved

more towards fast-growing jobs that have historically had more women, things like

social work and nursing. Jobs in these sectors grew in July and this shift has been painful for many men around

the country. But it's not like these industries don't want men. To the contrary, take social work.

Social work organizations are crying out for more men

and a lot of men want jobs so why aren't they meeting?

Today on the show getting More Men into so-called Pink Collar Jobs,

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