Posted on 10/30/2020 11:46:28 AM PDT by grundle
Statistics released by the United States Department of Labor for the third quarter of 2020 showed that median weekly earnings of Asian women surpassed the earnings of white men.
“Earnings for Asian women surpassed white male earnings for the first time this year!” American Enterprise Institute resident scholar Christina Hoff Sommers tweeted along with the newly released data. “Asian privilege? Female privilege? Narrative-destabilizing development. #EqualPay”
Asian women earned a $1,224 median usual weekly earnings in the third quarter compared to $1,222 earned by their male counterparts during the same time period.
Sommers’s tweet was liked and shared over a thousand times with several people questioning media narratives regarding “privilege” in society.
“Some serious Asian female privilege here,” New York Post writer Rav Arora tweeted.“Wonder what intersectionality has to say for this outcome, since Asian women are doubly 'oppressed' bc of both gender and race.”
“Tiger mum privilege,” columnist Rita Panahi tweeted.
Attorney and Republican committeewoman Harmeet K. Dhillon cautioned that the news was not the “good news you think it is.”
“This is not the good news you think it is, folks,” Dhillon tweeted. “This data will be used to marginalize Asian women at companies that increasingly reserve certain jobs/promotions for 'URM's, 'under-represented minorities.' This phenomenon already has downgraded the workplace status of Asian men.”
Sommers has written extensively about wage gaps and the narratives surrounding them and has pushed back against those who argue women get paid less for the same work as men.
“No matter how many times this wage gap claim is decisively refuted by economists, it always comes back,” Sommers wrote in Time in 2016. “The bottom line: the 23-cent gender pay gap is simply the difference between the average earnings of all men and women working full-time. It does not account for differences in occupations, positions, education, job tenure or hours worked per week. When such relevant factors are considered, the wage gap narrows to the point of vanishing.”
In the Asian supermarket parking we always parked at the far end.Sure enough we got hit by a Korean woman pushing a shopping cart.
When I see all of the young white males (and females) rioting at BLM rallies, this all makes sense.
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