tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post1316404283424626211..comments2024-02-23T01:30:06.101-08:00Comments on Early Warning: Gender and the Geography of WorkStuart Stanifordhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07182839827506265860noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-70891798921084915402010-06-04T14:55:00.034-07:002010-06-04T14:55:00.034-07:00yorksranter, I noticed the same thing about Denver...yorksranter, I noticed the same thing about Denver, though did not connect it with the rail project. I suspect the rail coincidence is just an artifact from population density. The rail isn't even on the radar for a decade or two, so unlikely to be affecting anything yet.Douglas Kretzmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07594782071750975708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-35389362982287029992010-06-04T11:01:04.890-07:002010-06-04T11:01:04.890-07:00The large and, according to the author, random var...The large and, according to the author, random variation among counties demostrates to me a large and random role of county government. Individual county commissioners are consiously or by unininteded consequence of county policies, favoring either male or female employment in several areas in which the author found puzzling.Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18430708195668633068noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-50120453295678238162010-06-03T09:23:58.835-07:002010-06-03T09:23:58.835-07:00In the map of female workforce participation, any ...In the map of female workforce participation, any ideas why there's a hotspot around Denver, Colorado, and what looks like roughly the footprint of the Front Range high speed rail project?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-29517582924351889172010-06-03T06:15:05.945-07:002010-06-03T06:15:05.945-07:00In Boston, I suspect the reason is academia, rathe...In Boston, I suspect the reason is academia, rather than the decline of male employment per se - the growth of women in graduate degrees and various related professions that evolve out of cultures where there's a huge college-educated population, much of it young and hanging around after graduation, shows up the demographic shift towards more degrees for women.<br /><br />Sharonjewishfarmerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17547121621115074866noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-44770630470883651422010-06-02T16:01:18.533-07:002010-06-02T16:01:18.533-07:00Fascinating! Perhaps you could average numbers ou...Fascinating! Perhaps you could average numbers out over macroregions for greater visibility. Some rundown of the numbers for each state would be interesting, too. <br /><br />Creating new regions based on demographics is another possibility you brought up. This occurred to me while looking at decline rates for oil producing nations - we can say that such and such a region or continent is declining at such and such rate, but, oil being an almost entirely fungible commodity, those are totally arbitrary. How about a group of nations where declines are catastrophically steep, or where gains are phenomenal? I've gotten as far as assigning names: "Savinaristan" and "Yerginsberg." ;)KLRhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00691172491186270514noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5235419263414453422.post-90996407327951708722010-06-02T11:53:34.967-07:002010-06-02T11:53:34.967-07:00it's not the Rust Belt that has high female em...it's not the Rust Belt that has high female employment. it's the liberal, highly educated, largely Scandinavian Upper Midwest: Iowa, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.wkdeweyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10868091938156254671noreply@blogger.com