Re: male-female earnings

["Margaret M Gullette" <mgullette@xxxxxxx>]

Matha--What is true that men's wages have been stagnant and dropping,
while women's have been rising. (As a percentage of men's income,
women's
peak wages have gone up, from about 40% to about 53%, over the
1974-1996 period.) You can follow all this yourself by downloading
        www.census.gov/hhes/income/histinc/p25.html
        also p.26a; p26b

These are the historical income tables (1998) from 1974-1996.
I made my own table from this for peak income: and found that
college-educated men dropped from $62,461 (mean, in today's dollars)
in 1974, with a peak between 45-54, to $55,039, in 1996, with the
peak having dropped to 35-44.
        College-educated women in 1974 earned $23,484  (mean, in
today's dollars) and in 1996, $32,039.  The peak has mainly come for
those between 45-54.
    Data for "all women" or "all men" would of course be lower, and
the age peak is different.
        I needed this data for my midlife book and articles.
    --Margaret


Resident Scholar, Women's Studies, Brandeis
e-mail: mgullette@xxxxxxx
617-965-2164
Home page:www.brandeis.edu/wmns/gullette.html

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-----Original Message-----
From: Martha Gimenez <gimenez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: A place for marxist-feminists to hang out
<M-Fem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Saturday, May 15, 1999 4:01 PM
Subject: male-female earnings


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>I remember reading somewhere that the decline in the gap between
male and
>female income is the effect of declines in male earnings rather than
>substantial increases in female earnings.  I wuld appreciate any
>references relevant to this issue.  Please send them to me
privately - I
>will compile the information and then post in it M-FEM.
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>Many thanks,
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>Martha
>Martha E. Gimenez
>Department of Sociology
>Campus Box 327
>University of Colorado at Boulder
>Boulder, Colorado 80309
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