{"id":37552,"date":"2011-07-21T10:42:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T15:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=37552"},"modified":"2013-11-10T23:54:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-11T04:54:04","slug":"earnings-and-hours-worked-1975-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/07\/21\/earnings-and-hours-worked-1975-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Earnings and Hours Worked, 1975-2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deeb Kitchen sent in an essay at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookings.edu\/opinions\/2011\/0708_jobs_greenstone_looney.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">The Brookings Institution<\/a> with a graph comparing the number of hours worked and earnings in middle-class, two-parent households (the 10% of households that are in the very middle of the income distribution). \u00a0 Controlling for inflation (results are in 2009 dollars), we see that these households are earning more, for sure, but also working more. \u00a0In other words, they&#8217;re getting about as much buck for their bang as they were in 1975.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/112.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37553\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/112.jpg\" width=\"468\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/112.jpg 585w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/112-500x419.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The authors of the post argue that the 26% increase in the number of hours worked is due mostly to mothers increasing their work hours. \u00a0Wages, as you can see below, have been stagnant for fathers, but gone up for mothers:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/24.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37554\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/24.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/24.jpg 563w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/07\/24-500x387.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2010\/05\/22\/more-men-and-fewer-women-earning-poverty-wages-1979-2007\/\">more men and less women earning poverty wages<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/05\/07\/why-did-mothers-go-to-work\/\">why did married mothers go to work<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deeb Kitchen sent in an essay at The Brookings Institution with a graph comparing the number of hours worked and earnings in middle-class, two-parent households (the 10% of households that are in the very middle of the income distribution). \u00a0 Controlling for inflation (results are in 2009 dollars), we see that these households are earning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,55,2100,253,76],"class_list":["post-37552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-gender","tag-gender-work","tag-history","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37552"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37552\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58783,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37552\/revisions\/58783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}