Yes, unemployment is growing faster among young men in the USA than young women. But @jburnmurdoch.ft.com argues that underneath the headlines is a story of men being less likely to work in education and healthcare, two industries where employment defies cyclical trends.

seen to explain the grad-
uate male malaise, what does?
Looking across all sectors, the key dynamic appears to be a well-worn story: women opt in much greater numbers for healthcare jobs, where employment continues trending steeply upwards, seemingly immune to the cyclical bumps that afflict most male-dominated sectors even at the graduate level.
Almost 50,000 of the 135,000 additional jobs filled by young women graduates in the past year were in America's healthcare sector - more than double the total number of additional jobs going to graduate men across all sectors over the same period.
Rising demand from an ageing popula-tion, coupled with relative resilience to automation, appears thus far to be making healthcare a steady ship in choppy water. Perhaps "learn to care" could replace "learn to code" as the go-to career advice for the next generation.
But while young women appear to he doing better at navigating the cur-

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