Young Men Are Abandoning the Workforce

After decades of efforts to bolster women’s role in the workforce, the male-female labor gap has now officially closed. By one measure, it has reversed. American women now hold 176,000 more payroll jobs than American men, according to July data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics analyzed by Laura Ullrich, director of economic research at Indeed. That disparity has nearly doubled since February. Compare it to the 1990s, when men held nearly seven million more jobs than women. It’s not that women are filling roles that would have gone to men. Rather, men have been leaving the labor market...