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The Wage Gap and White Privilege

suddeninevitablebetrayal:

lavender-labia:

iamateenagefeminist:

I’m very tired of hearing that women only make 77 cents on the male’s dollar. It’s not a correct statistic. It should read: White women only make 77 cents on the white man’s dollar. 

That’s the real statistic.

Not all women are white. WOMEN don’t make 77 cents on the dollar, WHITE WOMEN do.

It’s important to remember.

Because every time we repeat that 77 number with no mention of race, we are erasing all women who are not white. 

Black women make 69 cents on the white man’s dollar. 

Hispanic women make 59 cents on the white man’s dollar.

Those women matter. Those women are women.

Women who should be included in feminism, who should be included in our movement.  

So don’t erase them. 

I imagine this gap is every more extreme for trans women, fat women, disabled women, or women with mental health issues. 

Notably, I have yet to find a wage-gap chart with Native women so much as listed.

  1. feministfashionista reblogged this from thefemcritique and added:
    Could anyone come up with a statistical average then? Do you know what I mean?
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    I didn’t even know, goddamn. Great point Miscella. don’t feel shy, that was an important reminder :) We’re also missing...
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    undermine what you said, it’s just...you forgot First Nation women. They’re always left...
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    I’m very tired of hearing that women only make 77 cents on the male’s dollar. It’s not a correct statistic. It should...
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    That awkward moment when someone manages to mash being raceblind into this weird argument involving questionable linkage...
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    I am not understanding this commentary. Would someone be willing to explain, because I am not seeing clearly what the...
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    reblogging because i didn’t catch the condescending tone to the post originally, shame on me.
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