Thanks, for both the distinction and the citations.
Marta
Heather Boushey wrote:
> The numbers you want are the ones you already found: women ($24,973) are paid
> less than men ($33,674) for full time, full year workers.
>
> Check out: http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/p02.html
> for tables on median income by race and gender for all persons and
> http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/p03.html
> for mean income.
>
> Note that the above tables are for ALL workers, part-time, part-year, etc. For
> full-time, full-year figures by gender, you went to:
> http://www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/p29.html
> For full time, full year by race, go to tables 29A and 29B on the same webpage.
>
> Just for the record, median wages for women in 1997 were $9.63 and for men
> $14.39.
>
> Cheers,
> Heather
>
> Marta Russell wrote:
>
> > 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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-- Marta Russell author, Los Angeles, CA Beyond Ramps: Disability at the End of the Social Contract http://www.commoncouragepress.com/ramps.html