After 1980, what change occurred in the unemployment rates of men and women during recessions?

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Explanation:

the unemployment gender gap virtually disappeared, except during recessions when men's unemployment typically exceeded women's.

as for symbolic actions, the narrator's tearing down the wallpaper in an attempt to find the "woman" in the wallpaper represents her struggle to retain or regain her sanity.   the wallpaper has been part of her confinement and by her tearing it down, she is freeing herself from that confinement.

they used personification to make the truck seem mean and violent.

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