The official unemployment rate of men is 10%, although many estimate it to be higher.
There is no consistency or urgency, despite the high rate of men dying from suicide.
She also plans to gear the revamped wfn.com toward entrepreneurial women, who, she noted, now start companies at twice the rate of men.
Finally, while the public face of the credit crunch has been distinctively male, women are losing their jobs at double the rate of men.
How does bringing the persistence rate of men down to the level of women tell us anything at all about changes in the behaviour of women?
More definitive answers await the completion of studies that compare the survival rate of men who get the blood tests to those who don't.
After taking into account factors that could distort their findings, the researchers found that participants in the low-fitness group had double the death rate of men who were fit.
Women have been choosing to leave companies at twice the rate of men, and more than half the women whom the authors met in workshops were considering leaving their firms.
The rate at which women leave the tech industry is double the rate of men, according to "Women Technologists Count," a report released last week by the Anita Borg Institute.
Women are more than twice as likely to suffer a fracture during a fall as men of the same age, yet the death rate of men from falls is higher by a third than in women.
The participation rate of men has been declining for years, apparently because many who lost their high-paid, low-skilled jobs in manufacturing, transport and construction have retired or registered as disabled rather than retraining.
