Women in the Labor Force Updates

June employment figures released the first week of July 2009. Here's a couple of key stats from those new numbers.

• The overall unemployment rate increased just slightly: from 9.4% in May to 9.5% in June. The employment rate for adult men now stands at 10% and at 7.6% for adult women. (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm)
  
• Women hold a record 49.8% of payroll jobs but job gains have stalled in sectors that employ them. (http://snurl.com/iow-labf)
• Unemployment among single female heads of households increased nearly 1% in 6/09, from 11% to 11.7%. This rate is nearly 50% higher than 6/08, when it was 7.9%. (http://snurl.com/iow-sfhh)

(See our blog post on women in the labor force - it covers some things to keep in mind when you come across labor force stats that herald the coming of the female-majority labor force.)