Posted on 08/09/2018 3:56:08 PM PDT by simpson96
This year, Tuesday, August 7, is Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, which marks how long a black woman has to work into 2018 to catch up to the same amount a white man made in 2017.
The day is months later than National Equal Pay Day, which marks the same thing for women generally. This year, Equal Pay Day was on April 10, meaning that for women overall, it takes 16 months to match what white men make in 12.
But these numbers change considerably for women of color. Black women, for example, needed 20 months to reach equal pay. Native American women will hit equal pay on September 27, while Latinas will hit the benchmark on November 1. And while Asian-American women technically hit the equal pay mark on February 22, suggesting that this group faces the smallest gender pay gap of all women, that date overlooks significant disparities in pay among different groups of Asian women.
Attention to pay disparities has highlighted how black and Hispanic men make less than their white counterparts, and how women overall make less than men. But there has been a failure to fully grapple with what the pay gap looks like when both race and gender are taken into account. For example, even as white women lag behind white men in wages, they often do better than black or Hispanic men.
And these numbers have particularly overlooked women of color who face both racial and gender discrimination. It suggests that if conversations and policy addressing pay disparities are going to truly benefit all women, a more intersectional and nuanced understanding of the gender pay gap is needed.
(Excerpt) Read more at vox.com ...
Stolen from an original post by Brokemexifornia
There might be a reason. Taking direction is ESSENTIAL to being good at anything. Men are better at it than women in greater numbers. And white women are often better at it than black women. In athletics as well as business, taking coaching, notes, and direction is really undercredited.
The way they calculated the “gender gap” was by taking the average pay for men, across all professions, minus the average pay for women, across all professions.
The “gender gap” does not take into account women’s deliberate preferences for jobs that may pay less, but do not involve physical danger, unpleasant working conditions, mandatory overtime, or working where the work is.
Comparing pay for waitressing versus working oil rigs, is not going to give an accurate picture. If anything, companies are going to pay women, and especially black women, MORE than they pay white men for the same work, just to avoid the possibility of lawsuits.
All I know iz Oprah Winfrey has a reeeeally big gap.
That’s not stolen. You can’t steal common sense.
They should focus on comparisons to the earnings of White women not White men.
TMI
The “gender gap” does not take into account women’s deliberate preferences for jobs that may pay less, but do not involve physical danger, unpleasant working conditions, mandatory overtime, or working where the work is.
Exactly right. It is a made up statistic designed for political propaganda. Nothing more.
What about Oprah?
On road crews, women typically hold signs, while men typically do grunt labor.
Exactly.
I've used that same argument for decades.
So far, the Political Left has no counter-argument that I know about.
Michelle Obama told black people not to go work for corporations in offices, do researchers think that advice affects the earnings of certain demographics?
In my 32 years as an Engineer I had to do some dirty and sometime dangerous job that the women in our group were not asked todo because of their gender or just would not do. So gimme a break. I believe in equal work for equal pay no matter the gender but don’t demand equal pay if you are not wiling to do equal work.
Because women in leadership do not want women working for them they see them as a threat to their power
LOL!! I was pervertedly thinking along the same lines.
I prefer a small gap with my women.
I bet whites actually get paid less because there’s really no recourse for them if their pay is actually less.
I get paid more than some people because I chose a tech-y kind of job. And I chose it because I like math, reading blue prints, working on computers, and fixing stuff. So, I earn more than some women, more than some men, less than some women and less than some men. My race and gender don’t have much to do with it.
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