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Title: ASIAN AND PACIFIC ISLANDER WOMEN EARN LESS THAN WHITE NON-HISPANIC MEN IN ALL* 1 BUT ONE STATE
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Publication Year: 2021
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Abstract: In 2019, Asian American and Pacific Islander women were paid just 84.6 cents per dollar earned by White non-Hispanic men, even though Asian women are 40 percent more likely to have at least a Bachelor's degree. 1 • In California, the state with the largest Asian American and Pacific Islander population, women earned just 76 cents on the dollar earned by White Non-Hispanic men, and in 18 states they earned 75 cents or less than White men. In 2019, the median earnings of Asian American and Pacific Islander women for a year of full-time work were just 84.6 percent of White non-Hispanic men's, and just 73.3 percent of the median annual earnings of Asian American and Pacific Islander men. 2 While Asian American and Pacific Islander women had the highest median annual earnings for full-time year-round women of the largest racial and ethnic groups in the United States, $55,000 3 compared to $47,299 for all women workers, 4 this hides large differences in the labor market experiences for different groups of women. The earnings of Vietnamese, Cambodian, Hmong, and Pacific Islander women were just barely half or less than the earnings of the highest-earning groups of Taiwanese, Indian, and Malaysian women. 5 * Of all 44 states and Washington DC with sufficient data to allow earnings estimates.
Url: https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/AAPI-EPD-2021-beta.pdf
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Authors: Hegewisch, Ariane; Mariano, Halie
Publisher: Institute For Women's Policy Research
Data Collections: IPUMS CPS
Topics: Gender, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity
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