In July, women had 49.9% of all payroll jobs.

But this isn’t because more women are working. What has happened instead is that more men have lost their jobs.

And presto: A “mancession” is upon us. Dr. Phil devoted a show to men who couldn’t deal with their wives becoming the family breadwinners. Are we headed for a social crisis?

The mancession will likely end when male-intensive industries slow down their layoffs, the Times reports. The recession has been especially hard on jobs in the manufacturing and construction industries — which mainly employ men.

Women, on the other hand, are in more recession-proof jobs, like education and health care. But in general, women are more likely to work fewer hours, or have part-time jobs that don’t offer benefits, the Times reports. And even in full-time jobs, women still earn less than men — about 80 cents for every dollar a man earns.

Why do women *still* earn less than men? It was the exact same statistic when I did a paper on this very topic in high school more than 20 years ago.