{"id":51524,"date":"2012-10-04T12:16:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T17:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=51524"},"modified":"2012-10-04T12:16:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T17:16:54","slug":"gender-raceethnicity-and-the-pay-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/10\/04\/gender-raceethnicity-and-the-pay-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Gender, Race\/Ethnicity, and the Pay Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post<\/em> has a post up by Dylan Matthews that looks at the U.S. gender wage gap over time<\/a>. It has several charts that illustrate trends in pay very clearly. Here’s a breakdown of median income (in constant 2010 dollars) by gender and race\/ethnicity, for all workers, both full- and part-time:<\/p>\n

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The gap remains for full-time, year-round workers, too. Women have gained ground, but within every racial\/ethnic category, women’s median income is lower than men’s and every other group earns significantly less than Asian and White men. However, there’s a clear racial earnings hierarchy visible in the chart as well, which isn’t getting nearly the attention that the gender wage gap is:<\/p>\n

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Moreover, the income bump received from earning a college degree is still higher for men than for women:<\/p>\n

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There are additional charts further breaking down differences in pay among men and women in the original post<\/a>. As Matthews argues, and as Philip Cohen has posted about<\/a> here at Soc Images, the data just don’t support the “impending female economic dominance” narrative that has become popular recently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Washington Post has a post up by Dylan Matthews that looks at the U.S. gender wage gap over time. It has several charts that illustrate trends in pay very clearly. Here’s a breakdown of median income (in constant 2010 dollars) by gender and race\/ethnicity, for all workers, both full- and part-time: The gap remains […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[55,2100,285,1759,1760,1754,1757],"class_list":["post-51524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-gender","tag-gender-work","tag-raceethnicity","tag-raceethnicity-asianspacific-islanders","tag-raceethnicity-blacksafricans","tag-raceethnicity-latinos","tag-raceethnicity-whiteseuropeans"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51524","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\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51524"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51529,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51524\/revisions\/51529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}