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For several months now, we’ve been watching the percentage of women in the workplace creep toward the 50 percent mark.

The most recent numbers from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Current Employment Statistics survey show that 49.9 percent of establishment payroll jobs are held by women.

The Economist magazine this month looked to the tipping point and illustrated its cover with the iconic biceps-flexing woman from World War II, altering the poster’s origin headline — “We Can Do It!” — to “We Did It!”

But as a former president once said, it depends on what the definition of “it” is.

“It” may be cause for shrugs … for celebrations … or concern.

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