While the general trend of women versus men in the labor pool is accurate, the statistics cited here make male employment look a lot worse than it is. First of all, the total workforce participation rate for men and women combined as of September 5, 2012 is 63.5% (see
http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS11300000/ ). One of the biggest problems with our economy is that it has been steadily declining (it was at 66.5% in January, 2002). It's also why the unemployment rate has been going down despite a hiring rate that can't even keep up with population growth -- people keep leaving the labor pool and don't get counted in the unemployment rate.
As of August, 2012, if you break it down by sexes in the civilian non-institutionalized population over 20, the male participation rate is currently at 72.7%, the female participation rate is at 59.3%. There are currently about 6.5 million more men than women in the labor force in this category even though women outnumber men in this age range by 17.2 million. See
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t01.htm .
