Black and Latina women are still struggling much more than their white counterparts: While women make less than men, black and Latina women make significantly less — black women make just 69 cents, and Latinas just 60 for every dollar made by men. At the same time, women of color are more often single mothers and thus the primary earners for their families. This chart from NYU’s Wagner school illustrates (PDF) the wage disparities: Again, post-racial society?

Black and Latina women are still struggling much more than their white counterparts: While women make less than men, black and Latina women make significantly less — black women make just 69 cents, and Latinas just 60 for every dollar made by men. At the same time, women of color are more often single mothers and thus the primary earners for their families. This chart from NYU’s Wagner school illustrates (PDF) the wage disparities:

Again, post-racial society?

  1. Date Posted Icon 17th April 2012
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