Men losing some-more jobs than women worldwide

Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK Fri Mar 5, 2010 9:11am EST

People wait for for for their spin at a supervision pursuit centre in Malaga, southern Spain Mar 2, 2010.

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The tellurian retrogression has caused some-more men than women lose their jobs around the world, following a settlement already well determined in the United States, according to investigate expelled on Friday.

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Men hold some-more of the jobs lost in scarcely all the nations where government team were surveyed by Accenture, a government consulting firm.

In India, government team pronounced 95 percent of their layoffs were men; in France men accounted for 71 percent of pursuit losses. The survey, conducted in in between Nov 2009 and mid-February 2010, asked government team how majority men and women had been dismissed or laid off in the preceding year.

Executives additionally dismissed some-more men than women in Australia, Canada, Germany, Mexico, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, it said. In the United States, men hold 54 percent of jobs lost to women"s 46 percent.

"In a little cases the infancy of the work force was men, so majority men got impacted," pronounced Nellie Borrero, who heads tellurian human collateral and farrago at Accenture. "It could additionally meant that companies were some-more observant in insuring that a lot of women would not be impacted."

In the United States, men browbeat industries hardest strike by recession, such as complicated production and construction, whilst women browbeat less hard-hit fields such as health services and education, census data have shown.

A opposite story on gender and pursuit loss came from the Netherlands, where women accounted for 51 percent of jobs losses, Accenture said. In China the waste were separate uniformly in in between the genders.

Accenture surveyed 524 comparison government team in middle to large companies in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.

(Editing by Alan Elsner)

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