{"id":309,"date":"2005-03-29T03:16:30","date_gmt":"2005-03-29T08:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/wp\/?p=309"},"modified":"2005-03-29T03:16:30","modified_gmt":"2005-03-29T08:16:30","slug":"cant-imagine-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/?p=309","title":{"rendered":"Can&#8217;t Imagine Why&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Census Bureau <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/EDUCATION\/03\/28\/education.income.ap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">reported <\/a>yesterday that Black and Asian women with bachelor&#8217;s degrees earn more than &#8220;similarly educated&#8221; White and Hispanic women.<br \/>\nWhite men, of course, make more than anyone else*.  As much as a whopping 77 PERCENT more.<\/p><p><!--more--><br \/>\nEconomists and sociologists can&#8217;t quite put their finger on why this is, though.<br \/>\nIn the CNN story on the report, the reasons offered by the &#8220;experts&#8221; are (of course) that White women are lazy and unmotivated:  the &#8220;experts&#8221; <i>suggest<\/i> (i.e., there is no proof) that maybe Black women work more hours, or return to the workforce sooner after childbirth.  They cite the &#8220;historically important role&#8221; of the female wage earner in Black families.<br \/>\nWhen hypothesizing why Black, Asian and Hispanic men make less than White men, though, the same &#8220;experts&#8221; claim the disparities are due to &#8220;workplace discrimination and the continuing difficulties of minorities to get into higher-paying management positions&#8221;.<br \/>\nTake a look at the numbers*.  Note the staggering differences between what men of any race make versus White and Hispanic women, who are at the bottom of the earnings totem pole.<br \/>\nMight the &#8220;experts&#8221; use the &#8220;D&#8221; word to explain this?<br \/>\nNawwww.<br \/>\n<TABLE><br \/>\n<TR><TD colspan=3><b>*WORKERS WITH 4-YEAR DEGREES<br \/>\nAVERAGE 2003 EARNINGS <\/b><\/TD<\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><TD>&nbsp;<\/TD><TD>Men<\/TD><TD>Women<\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TD>White       <\/TD><TD>66,390  <\/TD><TD>37,761<\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TD>Black       <\/TD><TD>45,635  <\/TD><TD>41,066<\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TD>Asian       <\/TD><TD>52,508  <\/TD><TD>43,656<\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TD>Hispanic   <\/TD><TD>49,298  <\/TD><TD>37,550<\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TD>All           <\/TD><TD>63,084  <\/TD><TD>38,447<\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<TR><TD colspan=3><i>Source: Census Bureau<\/i><\/TD><\/TR><br \/>\n<\/TABLE><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Census Bureau reported yesterday that Black and Asian women with bachelor&#8217;s degrees earn more than &#8220;similarly educated&#8221; White and Hispanic women. White men, of course, make more than anyone else*. As much as a whopping 77 PERCENT more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecapeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}