[1]The case for “green jobs” took off last fall, when my colleagues at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) began publicizing their estimates of the potential jobs that could be created by public investments in conservation and alternative energy. I began wondering out loud and on line about the gender composition of the jobs that would be created. more on Nancy Folbres’ Care Talk: blogs.umass.edu/folbre/2009/01/12/jobs-for-whom/ [2]