Economy

Jobs recovery going better for women

By Joseph Lawler
Published December 13, 2013 5:00am ET
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Jobs recovery going better for women
In November, 67.8 million women were working in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, just 122,000 fewer than at the peak of the expansion, which officially tipped into recession in December 2007. Women are likely to make up that gap in the next few months. (File photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images) | Sean Gallup

The economic recovery has looked at times like a battle of the sexes.

Six years after the start of the recession, women have made up all the employment they lost during the labor market crisis that bottomed out with unemployment above 10 percent.

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