(WOMENSENEWS)--A flurry of February headlines announced, just in time for Women's History Month, that for the first time women outnumber men on the nation's payrolls.

Second-paragraph perspective pointed out that is mainly because of the depleted employee rolls of male-heavy industries like manufacturing and construction. Still, we've had recessions in the past and the balance had never tipped toward women. The fact is, women were already getting close.

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