[Allison Schrager]US job market tilts female

America is fast becoming a country with two economies: A stagnant one for men and a growing one for women.

So far this year, the US has created more than 165,000 private-sector jobs, and 72 percent of them went to women.

To some extent this reflects a structural change in the economy, as growth is in industries more likely to employ women, such as health care.

But it is also the result of a series of policy choices that aim to make the economy safer — and have made it less favorable to men.

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