{"id":1419,"date":"2008-12-29T19:41:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-30T00:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1419"},"modified":"2008-12-29T19:41:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-30T00:41:48","slug":"nice-work-round-up-on-gender-race-and-the-great-recession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2008\/12\/29\/nice-work-round-up-on-gender-race-and-the-great-recession\/","title":{"rendered":"NICE WORK: Round-up on Gender, Race, and the Great Recession"},"content":{"rendered":"

Women, Work, and the Downturn <\/strong>For an excellent column on why and how the downturn is likely to affect women, read UNC-Chapel Hill sociologist Philip Cohen’s recent post at HuffPo<\/a>. He argues, as has Randi Albelda<\/a> and Linda Hirshman<\/a>, that Obama’s jobs\/stimulus plans thus far are good for men, but not as likely to address the jobs concerns for women. As Cohen asks, will Obama listen?<\/p>\n

The Black Middle Class<\/strong> As happened during the Great Depression, so in the (current) Great Recession, African Americans are going to be harder hit by job loss. Zenitha Prince does outstanding reporting on the issues in AFRO News<\/a>. She reports that the manufacturing sector\u00e2\u20ac\u201dread auto<\/em> industry, where in particular African Americans had found a path to the middle class in the past few decades\u00e2\u20ac\u201dis getting hammered. What’s the size of the problem? While the unemployment rate overall is currently at 6.7 percent, for African Americans it is at 11.2 percent. It will get worse.<\/p>\n

Not only is unemployment generally twice as high for African Americans than for the population in general, but wealth inequality also makes the black middle class a vulnerable group. While the racial gap in incomes\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhat we earn at our jobs\u00e2\u20ac\u201dhas declined over the past thirty years, the gap in wealth\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwhat we own in terms of savings, retirement funds, housing, stocks, and other assets\u00e2\u20ac\u201dremains quite large. A 2005 report from the National Urban League<\/a> reports that African American households have about one-tenth the net worth of white households. This makes family crises like unemployment much harsher.<\/p>\n

–Virginia Rutter<\/a><\/p>\n

Later: Read more about the recession’s impact on minority autoworkers in Tuesday’s New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Women, Work, and the Downturn For an excellent column on why and how the downturn is likely to affect women, read UNC-Chapel Hill sociologist Philip Cohen’s recent post at HuffPo. He argues, as has Randi Albelda and Linda Hirshman, that Obama’s jobs\/stimulus plans thus far are good for men, but not as likely to address […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21108],"tags":[131,21733],"class_list":["post-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nice-work","tag-economy","tag-racial-equality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}