Women waiting tables, working retail account for most female labor gains

But as Bloomberg notes, most of those gains are focused in low-paying and part-time industries like food service and in-home health care, jobs that often lack health insurance and pay very little. Nearly 60 percent of the growth was in jobs that pay less than $10 an hour, according to an analysis of the labor statistics conducted by the National Women’s Law Center.

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Women have taken restaurant and retail jobs instead as teaching and other public-sector career positions that have disappeared, Joan Entmacher, vice president for family economic security at the NWLC told Bloomberg.

“They are taking jobs as baristas in Starbucks and other jobs that used to go to people without college degrees,” Entmacher said. “It’s an anecdote but it’s also a fact.”