When it comes to women in the workforce, the most commented-on indicators are the number of women in the Senate, White House and Fortune 500 leadership. Those indicators seem to move at a glacial pace. But that’s not where the big changes are taking place.

Anyone visiting a TV station would find that while there may be a male anchor, the backbone of the news team, the producers, for example, are almost all female. Here’s an another interesting example in today’s Washington Post — female FBI investigators in charge of white collar probes.

 Women dominate university graduation ceremonies — 58%, on average. And more than 80% of the layoffs in the current recession involve men. Women now make up the majority of the workforce, economists report. It’s a fascinating social revolution, and mostly a positive one. But it remains a social revolution that still goes mostly unnoticed.