User:Pastagrl/Gender pay gap in the United States
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In the U.S., using median hourly earnings statistics (not controlling for job type differences), disparities in pay relative to white men are largest for Latina women (58% of white men's hourly earnings and 90% of Latino men's hourly earnings) and second-largest for Black women (65% and 91% when compared to Black men), while white women have a pay gap of 82%. However, Asian women earn 87% as much as white men, making them the group of women with the smallest pay gap relative to white men.
The average woman is expected to earn $430,480 less than the average white man over a lifetime. Native American women can expect to earn $883,040 less, Black women earn $877,480 less, and Latina women earn $1,007,080 less over a lifetime. Asian American women's lifetime pay deficit is $365,440.
Savas explains how the gender wage gap disproportionately affects women of color, since the general public's perception of domestic work has roots in slavery.
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Chapman, S. J., & Benis, N. (2017). Ceteris non paribus: The intersectionality of gender, race, and region in the gender wage gap. Women’s Studies International Forum, 65, 78–86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2017.10.001
Havard, C. J. (2022). HIDDEN FIGURES: WAGE INEQUITY AND ECONOMIC INSECURITY FOR BLACK WOMEN AND OTHER WOMEN OF COLOR. St. John’s Law Review, 95(3), 641–681.
McCall, L. (2001). Sources of Racial Wage Inequality in Metropolitan Labor Markets: Racial, Ethnic, and Gender Differences. American Sociological Review, 66(4), 520–541. https://doi.org/10.2307/3088921
Savas, G. (2010). Social Inequality at Low-wage Work in Neo-liberal Economy: The Case of Women of Color Domestic Workers in The United States. Race, Gender & Class, 17(3/4), 314–326. http://www.jstor.org/stable/41674769