Gen Z men are experiencing higher unemployment than Gen Z women, with 9.1% of men aged 20 to 24 jobless in early 2025 versus 7.2% of women. The unemployment gap emerged around the third quarter of 2020 during lockdowns and has persisted through the post-pandemic period. Young women have increasingly entered AI-resistant sectors such as healthcare, improving their employment prospects. Young men remain disproportionately concentrated in tech and financial services, sectors facing automation pressures. Many white-collar hopefuls report prolonged job searches and thousands of applications without success, heightening male joblessness.
Although Gen Z men and women face the same labor market hurdles after college graduation, young male professionals have continued to be unemployed at higher rates. For years they've struggled to keep up with their female peers who have skyrocketed past them in education and work. In the first quarter of this year, 9.1% of men aged 20 to 24 were jobless, compared to just 6.6% of women in that age group, according to a FRED analysis of U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data.
Currently 9.1% of men aged 20 to 24 are unemployed compared to just 7.2% of women, a gap that's persisted since the thick of the pandemic. As more women funnel into AI-proof industries like healthcare, men are still on the hunt for jobs in tech and financial services slowly being overtaken by automation. Jobless rates for these young Gen Z graduates seemed to switch in the third quarter of 2020-in the thick of lockdown-after men previously saw lower unemployment than women.
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