Wage gap figures question??

Marta Russell ap888 at lafn.org
Wed Apr 21 16:33:25 PDT 1999


Doug Henwood wrote:


> The per capita figures include kids; the numbers for men and women are for
> those 15 and over, and only include those with income >0. If I'm
> remembering right, back in the old days, only about half of women had
> income >0; now it's about 90% or so.
>
> Doug

Thanks for such a quick answer!! Oh, so one more dumb question. Where would you get earnings figures for black, white, hispanic working age adults (15 and over) then? -- Marta Russell



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