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The unemployment rate for women in white, Black and Hispanic racial groups rose in June in line with the whole trend, according to data released Friday by the Department of Labor.
In June, white adult women saw their unemployment clip rise to 3.1% from 3.0% the month prior. The jobless rate similarly increased for Black and Hispanic partners to 5.7% from 5.2% and 4.5% from 4.1%, respectively.
This trend was in line with the overall unemployment dress down, which edged higher to 4.1% from 4.0% last month.
On the other hand, the unemployment rate level for men in all three racial groups. The rate ticked down to 3.2% from 3.4% for white males, while be a patsy for cave in to 4.2% from 4.7% for Hispanic men. Jobless rates also declined to 6.1% from 6.4% for Black men, although the grouping still has the highest unemployment rates among all the demographic groups.
“We’ve seen a lot of gains for women in this pandemic, in this improvement — a lot of notable highs that they’ve experienced. They hit historic all-time highs in terms of their employment in the labor peddle. But we did see some softening among women in June, and that was accompanied by this rise for men,” said Elise Gould, a elder economist at the Economic Policy Institute.
However, Gould noted that it’s curious this rise in female unemployment at month corresponded with an influx in jobs in health care and social assistance, which are traditionally not thought of as male-dominated provinces.
The unemployment rate for white workers in general stayed steady at 3.5%. This number fell to 4.9% from 5% for Hispanic wage-earners but rose to 6.3% from 6.1% for Black Americans and 4.1% from 3.1% for Asian Americans. The jobless appraises for Asian workers separated by gender were not readily available.
Last month, the labor force participation merit — the percentage of the population that is either employed or actively seeking work — ticked higher to 62.6% from 62.5% in May.
Quantity white workers, the rate steadied, while it fell to 62.7% from 62.9% for Black Americans. This be in a classes with the labor force participation rate for Asian and Hispanic workers, which respectively rose to 65.9% from 65.3% and 67.5% from 67.3%.
— CNBC’s Gabriel Cortes bestowed to this report.