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- noun Excessively high
male unemployment .
Etymologies
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Measured in terms of absolute job loss, men bore the brunt of the Great Recession, hence the term "mancession."
NYT > Home Page By NANCY FOLBRE 2011
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Echoing the idea that men were the chief victims of the Great Recession, AEI resident scholar and author of "The War Against Boys" Christina Hoff Sommers accused feminists of "skewing" President Obama's initial stimulus plan by insisting on equal treatment for women, who in "mancession" logic did not need the jobs as much as men.
Alice O'Connor: The Myth of the Mancession? Women & the Jobs Crisis -- Fact, Fiction, and Female Unemployment Alice O'Connor 2010
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Echoing the idea that men were the chief victims of the Great Recession, AEI resident scholar and author of "The War Against Boys" Christina Hoff Sommers accused feminists of "skewing" President Obama's initial stimulus plan by insisting on equal treatment for women, who in "mancession" logic did not need the jobs as much as men.
Alice O'Connor: The Myth of the Mancession? Women & the Jobs Crisis -- Fact, Fiction, and Female Unemployment Alice O 2010
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The Great Recession has been called the "mancession" because men absorbed 7 of every 10 job losses during the downturn.
The Seattle Times 2011
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The new movie has a somewhat more "mancession" - relevant scenario -- 16-year-old Nell lives with her single dad, a widower.
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Today, the recession -- in which so many more men have lost jobs that some dub it the "mancession" -- has left more women than ever as primary breadwinners.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Today, the recession -- in which so many more men have lost jobs that some dub it the "mancession" -- has left more women than ever as primary breadwinners.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Today, the recession -- in which so many more men have lost jobs that some dub it the "mancession" -- has left more women than ever as primary breadwinners.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Today, the recession -- in which so many more men have lost jobs that some dub it the "mancession" -- has left more women than ever as primary breadwinners.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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What's been called the "mancession" has moved into the next stage of "he-covery," where men gain jobs and women lose them.
Christine Bork: Women: A Year in Review (2011) Christine Bork 2011
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Here some graphs provided by Mark Perry, an economist from the University of Michigan who coined the term mancession that, with any luck, is not long for our world.
It's Not Just a Recession. It's a Mancession! Derek Thompson 2009
rolig commented on the word mancession
How do I know that this doesn't refer to men seceding from something, or to a procession of men, or to men ceasing to exist (a "man-cessation"), or if I simply hear it, to a session of some body at which women are excluded. This tendency to form portmanteau words at the drop of a hat (at a drat!?) really gets my billygoat gruff. No problem, if it's done in jest, but when people start acting like these are serious words, I start getting a little scared.
November 18, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word mancession
Or maybe it could be a recession (or other -cession, as you note) afflicting Mancunians, or a manse.
November 18, 2009
uselessness commented on the word mancession
If you don't see it printed, it sounds like a session for men. In my opinion a portmanteau is only a good portmanteau if its meaning is unambiguous in both spoken and written forms. This one clearly fails the uselessness test. ;-)
November 19, 2009
quotato commented on the word mancession
Is entering a word on wordnik considered to be work? :*)
January 9, 2010
hernesheir commented on the word mancession
If the word were entered during Shabbat it would be work (melachah) - transferring something from the private to the public domain.
January 9, 2010
reesetee commented on the word mancession
And here I thought this meant "a procession of men."
January 9, 2010
frogapplause commented on the word mancession
Why is "mancession" listed under rolig's pronunciations when uselessness is the one pronouncing it?
February 18, 2010