The latest jobs data from the Labor Department highlights a widening split in the K-shaped economy, not only by income, but also gender. The unemployment rate for women held steady for the first two months of 2026 at 4.1% according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But that figure mass the sharp rise in Latina and black women who are out of work and the pay disparity in the type of jobs that women hold.Women joined the labor market at nearly three times the rate of men last year, rever ...