Thursday, December 17, 2020

Median weekly earnings for Asian women working full-time was 9.1% higher than the median earnings of white males in the third quarter of this year

From Mark Perry.

"[The table below] displays some interesting narrative destabilizing gender disparities. In 2019, the median earnings for full-time female workers of various ancestry and ethnic groups in the US exceeded the median income for white males ($57,003). Do these disparities prove discrimination? Or does the “disparity-prove-discrimination” hypothesis only apply selectively? The findings above are consistent with the most recent wage and salary data from the BLS showing that in the third quarter of this year the median weekly earnings for Asian women working full-time of $1,224 was 9.1% higher than the median earnings of white males ($1,122). So much for male privilege and the patriarchy….." 

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