Women Capture Nearly nine-in-ten New Jobs During Trump’s Second Term

Since President Donald Trump’s second inauguration in January 2025, the American labor market has seen 468,000 new payroll jobs, according to one outlet Justin Wolfers. A striking 86% of those positions—403,000—were taken by women, while men secured just 65,000. The bulk of the growth occurred in health-care and private-education, sectors already dominated by female workers.

Meanwhile, occupations traditionally held by men shed 218,000 jobs, and a roughly equal-gender group lost another 142,000, pushing women into a majority on non-farm payrolls for only the third time since records began. Wolfers attributes the shift to heightened productivity in agriculture and manufacturing, which reduces labor needs and redirects workers toward service-heavy industries such as health, childcare, and elder care. He warns that the “pink-collar” economy may continue to expand unless men move into these growing fields, echoing a recent Bloomberg opinion by former Labor Department chief economist Betsy Stevenson.