By now all of us have most likely heard about the supposed war on women being waged by those Republicans who are straight out of the stone age. Well ladies, there is in fact a "war on women" that is very firmly underway. The only thing is, that it's not the GOP who is involved in it. Actually, the primary perpetrator here in this little ongoing skirmish is none other than, (drum roll), Barack Hussein Obama. You see the sad fact of the matter is that over 324,000 women dropped out of the nation’s civilian labor force in March and April as the number of women not in the labor force has now hit what has been described as an all-time historical high of 53,321,000. And that my friends is according to the Barry's very own Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). So how about it ladies, still think Barry is your guy just because he wants to 'give' you free birth control? I could be wrong here, but you might wanna rethink that. I guess what it all boils down to is what your priorities are. Is your priority to have a job or is your priority to spend as much time as possible on your back?
Anyway, I digress. The civilian labor force here in this country consists of all people in the United States 16 years or older who are not in the military, in a prison somewhere, or another institution such as a nursing home or mental hospital and who either have a job or are unemployed but have actively sought work in the previous four weeks and are currently available to work. Now the civilian labor force is a subset of what BLS calls the civilian noninstitutional population, which includes all people in the country 16 or older who are not in the military, a prison, or another institution such as a nursing home or mental hospital. This year, in both January and April, only 57.6 percent of the women in the civilian noninstitutional population were in the labor force. That is the lowest rate of labor force participation by American women since April 1993, also according to historical data maintained by BLS. The rate of female participation in the civilian workforce peaked twelve years ago, in April 2000, when hit 60.3 percent.
In February 52,833,000 American women were not in the labor force. In March that had climbed to 53,090,000, or a one-month increase of 257,000. In April, it climbed again to the historical high of 53,321,000, a one-month increase of 231,000 from March and a two-month increase of 488,000 from February. Also in February, there was 72,706,000 women in the labor force. But in March, that number dropped to 72,529,000, which is a decline of 177,000. And then in April, it dropped again to 72,382,000, a decline of another 147,000. Thus, in March and April, according to the BLS's own data, a total of 324,000 American women dropped out of the civilian labor force. The number of women added to those not in the labor force in March and April (488,000) exceeds the number of women who dropped out of the labor force during those two months (324,000) because women who newly turned 16, or left the military, or were released from prison or another institution during those two months and then did not seek a job were added to the ranks of those not in the labor force.
BLS says that for a one-month change in the number of women in the labor force to be statistically significant it has to be greater than about 260,000. For a three-month change to be statistically significant it has to be greater than 400,000. Thus, the two-month increase of 488,000 in the number of women not in the labor force is a statistically significant trend, but the two-month increase of 324,000 women who dropped out of the labor force is not. DUH? However, if at least 76,000 additional women drop out of the labor force in May the trend will become statistically significant. Moreover, BLS says the decline of female participation in the workforce over the past year has been statistically significant, dropping from 58.3 percent in April 2011 to 57.6 percent this April. For both males and females combined, the rate of participation in the labor force dropped to 63.6 percent in April—the lowest rate since December 1981. Recently, however, women have been leaving the labor force in larger numbers than men. From February to March, the number of men in the labor force actually increased by 14,000—rising from 82,165,000 to 82,179,000, according to BLS.
So ladies I ask you. First, is there a war on women? And second if there is, who's behind it? Is it the Republicans who think that you should pay for your own birth control, or is it Barry and the Democrats who now have so screwed up our economy that more and more of you are now unable to find full time employment? It would seem to be a no brainer to me, but hey, I'm a guy. So I guess the bottom line here is that you can continue to believe all of the pabulum coming from "Team Obama" and any number of Democrats and the many leftist allies, or you can simply look at the facts in the case. You're just going to have to ask yourself who is it really that's out to hurt women? I'd like to think most women would be able to figure it out, but some days I have to wonder. And you know what's really funny, funny strange, not funny ha-ha, is that we have all of these supposed women's groups like NOW, who profess to be the "protectors" of women's rights, but who regularly expose themselves as being nothing but frauds as the habitually side with the political party guilty of doing the most harm to women in this country. It would be hilarious if it wasn't so sad.
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