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The Pay Gap Is Even Worse for Black Women, and That’s Everyone’s Problem

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July 21, 2015

Would you like to work seven extra months for free just to earn the same paycheck as your male co-workers? We didn’t think so. Unfortunately, if you’re a black woman in the United States, that’s a likely reality.

Black women were paid 63 percent of what non-Hispanic white men were paid in 2014. That means it takes the typical black woman nearly seven extra months to be paid what the average white man took home back on December 31. That’s even worse than the national pay gap for all women, 79 percent, as reported in AAUW’s The Simple Truth about the Gender Pay Gap. Think about how that adds up in the course of a career, and we’re talking about losing a daunting chunk of change over a lifetime.

Women of Color in the Workplace

The wage gap is most severe for women of color. Consider these facts about the paychecks of black and Hispanic women in the workplace:
  • Of full-time workers, black women's median weekly earnings ($429) were only 64% of the earnings of white men ($669) in the year 2000.
  • In one year, the average black woman earns approximately $12,000 less than the average white man does. Over a 35-year career, this adds up to $420,000!
  • Among full-time, year-round workers, black women with Bachelors' degrees make only $1,545 more per year than white males who have only completed high school.
  • Black women account for 30% of all female-headed families in the U.S. They have a median income of $18,244 annually, while families headed by white males (no wife present) have a median income of $39,240. (Notes: 1-Income is more inclusive than earnings. 2-The term "female-headed families" does not necessarily include the presence of children.)
  • According to the Census Bureau, in 2000, the median full-time earnings for Hispanic women were $20,527 only 52% of the median earnings of white men ($37,339).
  • In one year, the average Hispanic woman working full-time earns $17,837 less than the average white man does. Over a 30-year career, that adds up to $510,000!
  • The median income of a female Hispanic householder ($20,765) is only 46% of the incomes of single white male householders ($44,988). (Note: Income is more inclusive than earnings.)
  • Hispanic women with a high school diploma earn $22,469. That is 33% less than white men with the same level of education.
According to Source--U.S. Current Population Survey and the National Committee on Pay Equity; also Bureau of Labor Statistics: Weekly and Hourly Earnings Data from the Current Population Survey:

In 2013, Black men earned 75.1% of a white man's earnings and Black women 64%; white women earned 78% and Hispanic women earned 54%. So for every dollar a white man earns, white women and people of color earn less and by those amounts. White women earned more than Black men, Black women and Hispanic women. Black men were next, earning more than Black women and Hispanic women.
 
So Liberty, what I'm gathering from reading the data is that although Black women are increasingly becoming the "breadwinner" in the Black family, even receiving more college degrees than the Black man, that doesn't mean that she will receive pay equity with white men, white women or Black men. So the data is saying that the Black family is inclined to become poorer because of this trend.

Are you reading it the same way?
 
So Liberty, what I'm gathering from reading the data is that although Black women are increasingly becoming the "breadwinner" in the Black family, even receiving more college degrees than the Black man, that doesn't mean that she will receive pay equity with white men, white women or Black men. So the data is saying that the Black family is inclined to become poorer because of this trend.

Are you reading it the same way?

Yes, I am. I don't think this will change in our lifetime. Getting an education will help an AA woman make more money than she otherwise would make, but she will still make less than everybody else, except Hispanic women. But, Hispanic women don't suffer by being the head of single households as we do.

Being the "breadwinner" is not all it's cracked up to be. Last I heard, whiten folks average median household income was $141,000, while AAs average median household income was only $11,000. Ain't that some ish"
 
The Catholic, Islam and Christianity religions demean women, black men and black women were designed to be equals in everything it's called soulmates for a reason:D:)

I challenge you here. Explain how Christianity demeans women when its NT teachings show that they are equal to and should be treated with the same respect as a man.
 
I challenge you here. Explain how Christianity demeans women when its NT teachings show that they are equal to and should be treated with the same respect as a man.

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Ephesians 5:22-24.

A woman should learn in quietness and full submission. 12 I do not permit a woman to teach or to assume authority over a man; she must be quiet. 13 For Adam was formed first, then Eve. 14 And Adam was not the one deceived; it was the woman who was deceived and became a sinner. 15 But women will be saved through childbearing—if they continue in faith, love and holiness with propriety. 1 Timothy 2: 11-15

For if a woman does not cover her head, she might as well have her hair cut off; but if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, then she should cover her head. 7 A man ought not to cover his head, since he is the image and glory of God; but woman is the glory of man. 8 For man did not come from woman, but woman from man; 9 neither was man created for woman, but woman for man. 1 Corinthians 11:2-10

No one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth. 4 These are those who did not defile themselves with women, for they remained virgins. They follow the Lamb wherever he goes. They were purchased from among mankind and offered as first-fruits to God and the Lamb. Revelation 14:3-4

 

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