[lbo-talk] gender pay gap including the uber rich

[Sean Andrews]

I was looking at statistics for the gender pay gap for the US and realized
that they are all based on the census data which, as Doug and others often
point out, is capped at some ridiculously low amount so as to not include
many of the uber rich that populate fields like finance, etc.  It occurred
to me that these fields are also likely mostly dominated by men (and white
men at that) so it would be very provocative to have the gender gap
statistics including these numbers.  I assume this is a very complicated set
of analyses, but is there anyone who has undertaken them?  If not will
someone please do so--preferably before noon today: we're talking about this
in my class at 12:30.

Just kidding.  But seriously, this would be very useful
information--especially if you could cross reference it with race/ethnicity.

best,
sean

PS: last class I was trying to show the number of people who don't have
health insurance--i.e. to demonstrate that the majority are still white
folks, contrary to all the immigrant/poor/minority bashing that gets
proffered in resistance to the public option in the popular press.  The 2009
census numbers had a breakdown of the uninsured but I was curious that,
unlike most of their other breakdowns, they didn't provide the category of
"Hispanic only."   The result is to make it look like there are a larger
number of "hispanics" in this group than in other parts of the survey where
they break out the hispanics of all races and the hispanics only (such as
poverty and income stats where there is obviously overlap between white and
hispanic when the stats are broken out.)  I'm sure the category existed
because it is basically just a cross reference to another part of the
survey, right?  So why not list it except for politically expedient reasons?