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== Women in Labor ==
== Women in Labor ==
* Graduate at equal or higher percentages from college or higher, but do not get paid equally and do not advance as their male counterparts do. Estimated GDP increased by $4.3 trillion in a decade if women were simply paid equally for their work.
* On track to control and own 70% of wealth in U.S. by 2020
* Only 3% of Fortune 500 companies share full diversity data, even though all companies required to report sex and race metrics every year to Department of Labor. This data only available via FOIA requests or lawsuits.


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: "Women account for two thirds of total work hours globally, yet earn only one tenth of the world’s income."
: "Women account for two thirds of total work hours globally, yet earn only one tenth of the world’s income."
== LGBTQ ==
Corporate Equality Index
* 370 of Fortune 500 have a 100% ranking

Revision as of 00:26, 3 October 2017

Inequality Gap

  • Thomas Piketty, Capital
  • Robert Putnam, Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Race and Class

Contact hypothesis

What's the relationship between race and class?

"Harvard's Class Gap" is a fantastic article on how we're ignoring issues of class to our detriment.

Working Class Whites

Princeton's Anne Case and Angus Deaton, Mortality and Morbidity in the 21st century.

  • Mortality rates of whites with no more than a high school degree were around 30 percent lower than mortality rates of blacks in 1999. In 2015, 30 percent higher than blacks.

Nancy Isenberg of Louisiana State University, White Trash: The 400 Year Untold History of Class in America

Arlie Hochschild of UC Berkeley, Strangers in Their Own Land: Anger and Mourning on the American Right

Education

William Bowen (Princeton) looked at 13 selective colleges in 2005. Admissions chances for:

  • Recruited athlete increased by 30.2%
  • Underrepresented minority increased by 27.7%
  • Legacy increased by 19.7%
  • First-generation college student increased by 4.1%
  • Bottom income quartile, no increase

Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Radford found that, holding academic ability constant, upper-middle class whites 3 times more likely than low-income whites to be admitted to elite colleges.

William Bowen and Derek Bok found that 86% of black students at elite colleges are middle or upper class.

Gender and Sexuality

Women in Labor

  • Graduate at equal or higher percentages from college or higher, but do not get paid equally and do not advance as their male counterparts do. Estimated GDP increased by $4.3 trillion in a decade if women were simply paid equally for their work.
  • On track to control and own 70% of wealth in U.S. by 2020
  • Only 3% of Fortune 500 companies share full diversity data, even though all companies required to report sex and race metrics every year to Department of Labor. This data only available via FOIA requests or lawsuits.

UNPRI reports:

"At the current rate of progress, the gender pay gap will not close for over 100 years, and the global average of women on boards will not reach 30% until 2027."
"Women account for two thirds of total work hours globally, yet earn only one tenth of the world’s income."

LGBTQ

Corporate Equality Index

  • 370 of Fortune 500 have a 100% ranking