The number of women not in the labor force reached a record high in July, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to the BLS, 56,209,000 women aged 16 and older were not participating in the workforce in July, besting April’s record of 56,167,000 women who were neither employed nor had made a specific effort to find work in the four weeks prior. July’s figures represented an uptick of 124,000 over June’s level of 56,085,000 women who were out of the workforce. The civilian labor force also shrank for women last month from 73,547,000 in Jun