From 1998 to 2008 Black men's unemployment was 12.2 percent compared to Black women's 11.3 percent.
http://www.dol.gov/wb/factsheets/Qf-ESWM08.htm
Since we're all fans of averages and medians here. Also...
Why are you posting pre recession data?
Black women lost over twice as many jobs as black men gained during the first two years of the recovery.
Black women have lost more jobs than black men since the beginning of the recession.
- Between June 2009 and June 2011, black women lost 258,000 jobs while black men gained 127,000 jobs.
Black women lost jobs disproportionately compared to women overall during the recovery.
- During the recession – from December 2007 to June 2009 – black men suffered the majority of job losses among black workers. However, because black women continued to lose jobs after the recession officially ended, while black men regained jobs, black women lost more jobs (491,000) than black men (477,000) between December 2007 and June 2011.
Black women lost more jobs during the recovery than they did during the recession.
- Black women represented 1 in 8 (12.5 percent) of all women workers in June 2009. But between June 2009 and June 2011, black women accounted for more than 4 in every 10 jobs (42.2 percent) lost by women overall.
Black women’s unemployment rate rose more than other groups’ in the recovery.
- Black women lost more jobs during the recovery (258,000) than they did during the recession (233,000); women overall lost slightly more than half as many jobs during the recovery (612,000) as they did during the recession (1,199,000).
- Black women’s unemployment rate rose 2.1 percentage points between June 2009 and June 2011, compared to an increase of 0.7 percentage points among black men. Unemployment also rose during the recovery by 0.3 percentage points among women overall and among white women by 0.2 percentage points. Some groups experienced a decrease in unemployment during the recovery, including men overall by 0.8 percentage points, and among white men, Hispanic men, Asian men, Hispanic women, and Asian women.
http://www.nwlc.org/resource/employment-crisis-worsens-black-women-during-recovery
You basically reposted what I said
BW had a steady rate of 10% from recession to recovery
BM had a rate of 17% from recession to 11% in recovery