Last year, a labor economist from the Economic Policy Institute made the widely-quoted estimate that the gender pay gap would be closed within 30 years. Other commentators state confidently that the gap does not reflect discrimination, but other factors, such as the high wages of a few white men, and gendered patterns of occupational and educational choice and work experience. The effect of such assertions is to make women feel [...]
( see graphs ) - Combined African American and Hispanic representation among lawyers was seven percent in 1998. Asians were not reported separately. Today, total minority representation in the profession is about 10 percent, an increase largely attributable to greater participation and reporting of Asians. Less than 1/4 of one percent of lawyers are American Indians. Overall minority representation in the profession is still significantly lower than in most other [...]
Socioeconomic status (SES) is often measured as a combination of education, income, and occupation. It is commonly conceptualized as the social standing or class of an individual or group. When viewed through a social class lens, privilege, power, and control are emphasized. Furthermore, an examination of SES as a gradient or continuous variable reveals inequities in access to and distribution of resources. SES is relevant to all realms of behavioral [...]
Media producers often argue that the lack of diversity in programming is about money, not racism. Foreign markets and domestic advertisers, the story goes, pay more for entertainment products which feature white people in lead roles. Pressures from Foreign Markets The foreign market is a huge influence on the cultural content of films and television programming. Software and entertainment products are now America’s biggest export, and exportable movies bring in [...]
Ask any journalist and he or she will tell you that good journalism is about objective, independent and balanced reporting. But study after study confirms that members of ethnic and visible minorities are underrepresented and stereotyped in the news. In his landmark 1991 study of Canadian news media, Charles Ungerleider examined the gulf between objective reporting and the distorted image of ethnic and visible minorities so prevalent in most news [...]
When asked, in a 2002 poll, whether the government should preserve and enhance multiculturalism, 82 per cent of Canadians said yes. So why, asks Lionel Lumb, from Carleton University’s School of Journalism, “are the millions of minorities that are so visible on our streets and in shopping malls, our offices and health care centres, so invisible on our television screens?” Seventy per cent of the dramas, sitcoms and series that [...]
Projection of British population over 40 years shows sharp growth in ethnic groups outside of white British majority A crowd of shoppers negotiate London’s Oxford Street. The UK is projected to become far less segregated as ethnic groups disperse throughout the country. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Ethnic minorities will make up a fifth of Britain’s population by 2051, compared with 8% in 2001, according to new projections published today by the [...]
Ethnic minorities are set to make up a fifth of the UK population in 40 years, a University of Leeds study predicts. It says the proportion of black, Asian and other ethnic minorities will rise from 8% of the population, as recorded in the 2001 census, to 20% by 2051. Researchers say the population will reach nearly 78 million – up from 59 million in 2001. One of the authors, [...]
—————————————————————————————————————- (source opm.gov) —————————————————————————————————————- (source Norman J. Arnold School Of Public Health, University Of South Carolina) Rural minorities, and in particular poor minorities, are geographically concentrated in different regions: - Seven of every ten (70%) poor, non-metro African Americans live in six Southern states: Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina. - Nearly three quarters (73%) of all poor, non-metro Hispanics live in five Southwestern states: Texas, New [...]