http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/c-e/davis/2005/davis032905.htm

by Richard L. Davis

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the
truth. And it goes away. Puzzling. - Robert M. Pirsig

A recent article in the Boston Globe, "Income Gap Seen for College-Educated
White Women," produces a story that is not understood by many who read it,
nor [perhaps] the reporter who reports it and the editors who edit the story
for fact.

The U.S. Census Bureau documents that white women with a bachelor's degree
earn $37,800, Asian women earn $43,700, black women $41,100 and Hispanic
women $37,600. Clearly this documents that many minority women earn more
than many white women.

The reporter notes that "Because study in the area is limited, it is hard to
pinpoint specific reasons, said Barbara Gault, research director at the
Washington-based Institute for Women's Policy Research." No mention of
discrimination here. I wonder if the census bureau documented that whites
made higher pay than minorities would there be suggestions that
discrimination does play a role?

We don't have to wait too long for that answer. A few paragraphs down, the
same article notes that a white male makes $66,000 a year, Asian men
$52,000, Hispanics $49,000 and blacks $45,000. "Workplace discrimination and
continuing difficulties of minorities to get into higher-paying management
positions could help explain the disparities among men, specialists say."

The reporter and the newspapers editors are unwilling or unable to recognize
they have received two different answers to the same question. When white
women earn less it is "hard to pinpoint a specific reason." When minority
men earn less it is because of "workplace discrimination." My head is
spinning because they data has been spun.

This Census Bureau data actually documents that the pigmentation of skin and
ethnicity often plays little to no role concerning how much people earn. If
pigmentation of skin and ethnicity are important factors concerning earning
less money, why are white women near the bottom of the earnings scale and
Asian women at the top?

The reporter and the editors in this story do not question the "expert
spin"
and they ignore the realities this data actually reveals. The reporter, the
editors and the experts are complicit in presenting simple and wrong
answers. Now where else have I read empty headed, fluff stuff, that fly's in
the face of actually, factually, empirical data?

Oh!, that's right! Honey, where is that newspaper story that reports that
domestic violence is caused because of misogynist men and the patriarchy?

Richard L. Davis



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Men are everywhere that matters!





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