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The long debate over whether America has gotten more economically unequal in the last few decades is over; all but the most recalcitrant acknowledge it. (As a recent New York Times story reported, sharp-eyed salesmen have acted on this reality, increasingly marketing to the top few percent.) The economic argument has now shifted to whether average Americans have nonetheless done alright even as the rich have become super-rich. Here one detects a subtle difference in vocabulary. Defenders of the broadening inequality insist that average family incomes have been nonetheless increasing. They have. Critics of the broadening inequality insist that earnings have been flat or dropping. They have鈥攆or men.

... Now,聽Matissa N. Hollister聽and Kristin E. Smith show, in the latest American Sociological Review, that women鈥檚 increasing ties to their jobs have masked men鈥檚 decreasing ties to theirs鈥攎ale job insecurity.

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