Manufacturing is returning to America—but not manufacturing jobs, because of automation. Instead, the share of service jobs keeps growing. Economist and management scholar Bruce Greenwald says while this is painful, it benefits women:
“We are in the middle of – and you see it in Europe, you will see it in China, you’ve seen it in Japan for 30 years – an extraordinarily difficult transition. And it is a transition from centralized manufacturing institutions with jobs that are male-oriented to decentralized service institutions with jobs that have a much higher human relationship content that favor women.”