why is there greater GENDER INEQUALITY between whites than there are for blacks?

[Shawn]

White
Income | <25K | 25-35K | 35-50K | 50-70k | 70-100K | 100K+ |

Male | 44.60% | 54.70% | 65.00% | 73.90% | 79.60% | 85.60% |
Female | 55.40% | 45.30% | 35.00% | 26.10% | 20.40% | 14.40% |

Black
Income | <25K | 25-35K | 35-50K | 50-70k | 70-100K | 100K+ |

Male | 42.90% | 48.00% | 54.70% | 61.60% | 65.30% | 68.00% |
Female | 57.10% | 52.00% | 45.30% | 38.40% | 34.70% | 32.00% |

 

[z0mb13]

because there are more opportunities for white people?

 

[FleshLight]

Because [insert overused Kanye West quote here]

 

[shimsham]

the man

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: z0mb13
because there are more opportunities for white people?

I'm talking about gender differences.

 

[dartworth]

I just watched Crash tonight...

 

[everman]

help help I'm be oppressed!

 

[eakers]

how are those percents calculated?

 

[eakers]

Originally posted by: z0mb13
because there are more opportunities for white people?

looks to me like black women are making more than white women

but I still don't understand, percent of WHAT?

 

[z0mb13]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: z0mb13
because there are more opportunities for white people?

I'm talking about gender differences.

because there are more opportunities for white people, so white men can excel more than white women?

for black men, they dont have a lot of opportunities, so the job they have is the same as the black women

 

[FeuerFrei]

Originally posted by: eakers

Originally posted by: z0mb13
because there are more opportunities for white people?

looks to me like black women are making more than white women

but I still don't understand, percent of WHAT?

percent in a given salary range for each race

 

[eakers]

Originally posted by: FeuerFrei

Originally posted by: eakers

Originally posted by: z0mb13
because there are more opportunities for white people?

looks to me like black women are making more than white women

but I still don't understand, percent of WHAT?

percent in a given salary range

oh i see, the percent of white people in a salary range that are women and are male.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: eakers
how are those percents calculated?

basically it's showing the percentage each gender makes for each income. So for whites, of all the people who make 100K+ 85.6% of them are male and only 14.4% are female.

 

[sleuth bandit]

Location and size of data pool would help this thread greatly.
Or just post your source.

 

[Shawn]

Originally posted by: sleuth bandit
Location and size of data pool would help this thread greatly.
Or just post your source.

census 2000. the entire US.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: sleuth bandit
Location and size of data pool would help this thread greatly.
Or just post your source.

agrees

 

[sleuth bandit]

Originally posted by: Shawn

Originally posted by: sleuth bandit
Location and size of data pool would help this thread greatly.
Or just post your source.

census 2000. the entire US.

That only accounts for the number of people who filled out the entire long questionaire?

The population differences between blacks and whites coupled with affirmative action probably accounts for some inequality, in my opinion.

 

[spidey07]

motivation.

yep, it all boils down to motivation/prioriteis and nothing else.

that and the fact that if you are a black female no matter what you do they can't fire you and are mandated to promote you.

bonus points if you can bring religion to the table.

 

[AtlantaBob]

One might hypthesize that more white women stay at home and have $0 income than black women, who are forced/or choose through whatever mechanism to work.... sigh. This one doesn't seem to be that hard.

 

[PlatinumGold]

well that would be obvious.

more minority women are primary bread earners, hence they work more hours and have higher salaries.

shoot, in the neighborhood we live in, 60% of mothers seem to not work or only work part time.

 

[Rogue]

Because the richer the white man, the bigger the money grubbing bitch he pays for, that's why. I've seen some really, really ugly men with money with some really, really hot women hanging off of them. That's what I got from those numbers, maybe I'm reading them wrong.

 

[batmanuel]

Because until very recently white males held all the power in society. As recently as 150 years ago, you had to be a white male to have any sort of power in the world (aside from the occasional Queen Victoria/Catherine the Great type figure that came along every now and again). Women and minorities were relegated to less glamorous and lucrative work while white males held positions of prestige. Heck, even some white males were discriminated against back in the day, if they happend to be Irish or Polish or from some other group that was non-Anglo.

WWII changed a lot of that because it was such a huge conflagration that we needed every person we could to run the war machine. This got a lot of women into the workplace for the first time and began the racial integration of the military (followed soon by the nation as a whole). We've made a lot of progress since then, but sixty years a not a lot of time to undo centuries of predjudice. Things began to change for women and minorities around the same time, so it makes sense that African American women are making about as much as African American males. The big gap in white men in women in terms of wages is there because the white males have had a HUGE head start on everyone else when it comes to amassing power.

We still haven't had a African Amerian man as President, nor have we had a woman of any race in that role. We haven't even had one of these groups as a POTENTIAL Presidential candiate of one the major parties. That right there should be a clear indication of how we as a nation really view people that aren't white males when it comes to positions of power. We still have a long way to go to fix the inequities of the past.

 

[BigJ]

Look at how many men are in upper management in companies across the county. Compare that to how many women are in upper management.

Now just do the same thing, but compare it to black vs. white, and how think about how protected minority women are in the workplace.