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Originally posted by HelloKitty22
I think what they did is add up the salaries of college grad women and it divide it by the number of women in the sample. This isn't really the best way to ascertain equality of earnings. The results are screwed up by the fact that some people have two jobs or are in different careers or have been working longer or shorter amounts of time.
I think that this does probably reflect a more even payscale between black and white female college grads. But it also reflects other problems. The black women in the study were more likely to have high salaries because they have two jobs or took less time off for childbearing. I imagine that's because most of them are married to minority men who still earn significantly less than white men.
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Where did you get that "method"? This is the census by the way.
-Rudey