It’s been ages since I broke off a CHART OF THE DAY post and even longer since I talked about the Labor Force Participation Rate, so let’s remedy both of these situations in one shot.
Courtesy of your pals at the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, have a look at a recently published chart on participation, this one broken down by gender. As always, some insightful comments from me after the data:
Let’s break down the data a little, and see if we might (Shock!) learn something. Some observations…
Read the whole post over at Steve Boese’s HR Technology Journal (an FOT contributor blog).

Steve Boese is fondly known to many as the HR Technology blogger. By day, he is the Co-Chair of Human Resource Executive’s HR Technology Conference. He is also a former Director of Talent Management Strategy at Oracle and an HR Technology instructor. Steve can also be found hosting the HR Happy Hour Show and Podcast … you know, where a bunch of HR pros get together and call in to talk about HR stuff. Sounds like an SNL skit, we know. But when you have Dave Ulrich, the grandfather of HR as show guests, well, I guess you’re doing something right. Talk to Steve via email, LinkedIn, Twitter or Facebook.