Posted on 08/03/2007 2:17:56 PM PDT by DeweyCA
Young women in New York, Dallas, Minneapolis, Chicago, Boston and a few other of the nation's largest cities who work full time have forged ahead of men in wages, according to an analysis of 2005 census data.
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The study by Queens College demographer Andrew A. Beveridge shows that all women from ages 21 to 30 living in New York City and working full time made 117 percent of men's wages, or a median wage of $35,653, and even more in Dallas, 120 percent.
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Also, many of those women are not marrying right after college, leaving them freer to focus on building careers, experts said.
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Among all men -- including those with college degrees -- real wages, adjusted for inflation, have declined since 1970. And among full-time workers with advanced degrees, wages for men increased only marginally even as they soared for women.
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I’m sure there will be a hew and cry to right this dreadful situation...particularly in Dallas, where women get 20% more pay than men. There are laws about the majority discriminating against the minority, and college graduate men are definitely a minority these days. We can expect the Dems, those champions of the mistreated everywhere, to take up this battle, can’t we?
You folks already know that this is true. I posted this so that you can have survey evidence of this fact.
Hillary said that women earn less than men for the same job. I think she quoted 75 cents on the dollar, in that neighborhood.
She said the problem was especially bad for “Latinas”.
We can’t let the facts get in the way of someone trying to score their political points can we?
[She said the problem was especially bad for “Latinas”.]
Gosh, I wonder if there isn’t some correlation between the average number of children born to Latinas (as compared to other races) and the amount of time off taken for maternity leave and family emergencies ? Could choosing to have a large family have a negative effect on your career prospects ??
Nah. I’m sure there is no such simple explanation for those statistics.
I’d imagine the gap nationwide will eventually swing that way. More women are going to college now and women generally are doing better in school. I expect that in the next generation wages will be at least as high for them in high paying fields.
There’s a fast way to reverse this situation.
All us men just sit on our duffs and drink beer. Tell the little ladies to “get back to work” and support us as we apply for welfare.
Along about the time the women driving trucks (yes, they’ll have to drive trucks if we’re all sittin’ on our duffers) need their first truck tires changed, the situation will reverse rather quickly.
Thankfully, since AFDC was abolished, women no longer get more money per child on the relief roles.
BTW: 4-5 children is NOT "alot" to this ex-Catholic. If they outbreed the WASPY remnents of old California, so be it!
i’d like to see their methodology.
warren farrell, author of “the myth of male power”
was vice president of n.o.w. in the 1970’s until
he wrote this book. n.o.w. attempted to stop the publication of his later books.
a couple of his points, are that married women tend to take jobs closer to schools, limiting their salaries and opportunities.
men in contrast commute further and work longer hours.
professionals who want the big salaries work at least 60 hours per week,
and blue collar men either work overtime or have a second part-time job.
in sum, men work longer hours.
Among all men — including those with college degrees — real wages, adjusted for inflation, have declined since 1970
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I have been called at least seventeen different kinds of an idiot for saying exactly that, I still believe it.
I have no problem with people wanting large families — I had 5 brothers and sisters myself. My dad had 8 brothers and sisters. WASPs all.
I do have a problem with people pretending that a woman can be a mother to a large family and NOT have it interfere with the value she provides to an employer. That is what they are doing when they insist the employer pay her as much as some other employee without such family demands on her time.
And AFDC may no longer reward additional children, but EITC, FoodStamps, Medicaid, and Child Credits still do. The first child is still the best bang for the buck, though. A minimum wage single woman can benefit $6,000/yr by becoming a single mother. Ain’t it wunnerful ?
Now comes the time for the men to get pregnant and carry the unborn for nine months. Men to give birth and nurse the infants. Oh wait can’t happen.
Oh well we don’t need men, let’s exterminate them, men serve no purpose.
“More women are going to college now”
More men by a large percentage have spent years on Ritalin. Very few women on these drugs.
Another believer in quantity over quality
I, for one, can’t wait until these ladies start (a) getting hit with alimony decrees, and (b) having fatal coronaries at their desks. Then, and only then, will we have gender equality.
I think that the big issue in terms of migration by the time I reach my senior years will be from the Muslim world and/or subsaharan Africa, especially as improvements in healthcare reduce infant mortality.
Back when Mexican women had the 6 babies you mention illegal immigration was a fraction of what is today
That new lower birthrate obviously has no bearing on Mexicans jamming in here.
On top of that all 3rd world immigrants, legal & illegal, have more babies here than they would at home. They can live off the fat of the land here. There is no welfare in Mexico, Brazil or Colombia
In a post-industrialized society people tend to have only as many children as they can properly educate with the skill sets required for success and without negatively impacting the entire families social standing. These are no small things.
Also, children are no longer seen as a “retirement plan” as they are in harsher economic environments.
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