It’s a stark number: 212,000. That’s how many women ages 20 and over have left the workforce since January, according to the most recent jobs numbers released A

It’s a stark number: 212,000. That’s how many women ages 20 and over have left the workforce since January, according to the most recent jobs numbers released Aug. 1 by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. (By contrast, 44,000 men have entered the workforce since January.) The use of “entered” and “left” is confusing to me, are they comparing apples and oranges or net job gains and losses. Presumably some women entered the workforce during this time and some men left right?