that's the 1 million right there. that is not common when you take a look at recoveries in the last four decades. recovery are normally better to women. not in this case. some women are doing better. white women, if you look at this category, saw their unemployment rate drop. that's good. that's during the recovery. but asian, black, and hispanics, those women saw unemployment rise during this same recovery period in the last two years. what might explain this historical blip is not known. men lost three million jobs more than women in the recession. you can see the difference here. this is three million jobs of a difference. but even with these gains, men still lag women by two million jobs from prerecession levels if you were to do the numbers. certain job sectors have more women than men and vice versa. as some sectors rise and fall, so do the number of men and women working in those sectors. the places with the greatest gender difference is the government job sector with 9%