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Politics : The Left Wing Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mao II who wrote (2449)	1/4/2001 2:03:08 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6089

I disagree. White educated women are everywhere in the corporations, political institutions, public institutions and private associations. Educated people, of all races and genders, are much more in evidence. The problem you are addressing is the problem of the have nots- of people left out of employment opportunities, because they lack education. They lack education because of their family circumstances. How to correct this? I think you do not know your average American city at all. What EXACTLY are you using to evaluate your average city? Your "perception" of the city? Of do you have actual wage figures, employee and employment data in front of you? I've worked for a government agency dealing with employment- so I have some idea of who is working where- which I can add to my "anecdotal" evidence. Although the fact that my grandmother couldn't vote- let me remind you- is also historic. Not that you had a problem with my "anecdotes"- but just in case... "More than 41 million women worked full time at wage and salary jobs in 1998 and their median weekly earnings were $456. Among female full-time workers, earnings levels differed notably by age, race, Hispanic origin, and education. At the same time, women’s earnings fell short of men’s across all demo-graphic groups; the gender earnings gap was largest for white workers, middle-aged and older workers, and those with only a high school education. A look at women’s earnings over the past 20 years shows a mixed picture of progress. Women’s inflation-adjusted earnings have increased nearly 14 percent since 1979, whereas men’s have declined by about 7 percent. But while women’s earnings have improved relative to men’s, full-time working women as a group found themselves making only about 76 percent of what men earned in 1998. Earnings for women with college degrees shot up almost 22 percent over the past two decades but, for women without a post-secondary education, there was little or no advancement. This development left groups such as Hispanic women, who were less likely than others to have attended college, comparatively less well off, and generally exaggerated the earnings inequalities among white, black, and Hispanic women.