Hey, remember the "mancession"? That time when women outnumbered men briefly in the workforce, prompting pundits to wail and moan that men were the real victims of the recession? As I wrote at the time:

First, let’s get one thing out of the way: The reason more women have kept jobs in this economy is that the fastest-growing industries happen to be female-dominated industries (nursing, child care, retail, hospitality) that pay less money than industries dominated by men. At the top, women are still lagging far behind men: While there are a handful of female CEOs and federal officeholders, they’re the exception, not the rule. And even in the middle, women still make less than men for equal work. You know, the wage gap? Remember that?

Well, now that the economy's starting to recover, guess who has landed more than 95 percent of the new jobs? Men . That's far out of proportion to men's job losses during the recession---seven out of every 10 jobs lost were held by men. And it's true not only in male-dominated industries like manufacturing, where you'd expect most of the jobs formerly held by men to go to men, but in female-dominated industries like retail sales and the service sector.



Overall, men have gained 438,000 jobs since June 2009, while women have lost 366,000 over the same period. Of the 984,000 jobs created between January 2010 and January 2011, only 47,000 have gone to women.

Even in the service sector, where women are overrepresented, only 99,000 new jobs went to women over the last year, while nearly 800,000, or 8 out of 9 new openings, went to men.

In retail trade, women have lost 59,000 jobs since last year, while men grabbed 147,000 new jobs.

Frances Serdjuk, of Bayside, N.Y., was one of more than a dozen female administrative staffers laid off from a New York law firm last July.

"They only laid off women. They didn't lay off any men. In fact, a male secretary whose boss had retired, they kept him to work for my boss who was laying me off," Serdjuk said. "I didn't cry, but I was very, very angry."

A paralegal by training, Serdjuk, 61, has been unable to find work, relying instead on unemployment insurance and her husband's paycheck. She said her experience, and the national hiring gap between men and women, probably reflects a cultural bias about men's traditional role as breadwinner.

So can we look forward to an onslaught of stories about how women are the real victims of the "mancovery"? I'm not holding my breath.