A Claim About Jobs Doesn't Tell Full Story In campaign events on Tuesday and Wednesday, Mitt Romney made the claim that 92.3 percent of the net total of jobs lost since President Obama took office belonged to women. The assertion is technically accurate but misses several important pieces of context. PolitiFact, a nonpartisan organization that judges political claims, rated Mr. Romney's statement "mostly false" on Tuesday. "We found that though the numbers are accurate, their reading of them isn't," PolitiFact wrote. The Romney campaign disputed the finding. Lanhee J. Chen, the policy director of the campaign, said in a detailed statement that there were "obvious problems with rating an accurate statement mostly false," including inconsistent standards, and that it showed an "Obama-for-America spin." The net number of jobs held by women has fallen by 683,000 since Mr. Obama's inauguration in January 2009, according to a monthly survey of employers by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Male employment has fallen by only 57,000. But men started out in a much worse position than women in January 2009, because men had already borne the brunt of the layoffs from the recession that began more than a year earlier. From December 2007, when the downturn officially started, to the Obama inauguration, men lost 3,264,000 jobs, while women lost 1,157,000 jobs. For this reason, this recession has also been nicknamed the "mancession." Even today, the share of working-age American men who are employed is around its lowest level since 1948, when the government began collecting this data. The reason that job losses have been concentrated among women in the past three years and among men in 2008 largely has to do with the kinds of industries that employ them. Men work disproportionately in industries sensitive to early swings in the economy, like manufacturing and construction. These industries took especially big hits this time around, given the housing bust and the troubles of American automakers.