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Why Black Women are now Privileged, but Black Men are still Penalized
“the black-white intergenerational gap in individual incomes is driven almost entirely by men. We find gaps for men of about 11 percentiles across the parental income distribution. In contrast, black women have 1 percentile higher individual income ranks than white women conditional on parental income.” — Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie R. Jones, and Sonya R. Porter, “Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States: An Intergenerational Perspective”
1. The Privilege of Black Women
“black women earn about 1 percentile more than white women conditional on parent income.” — “Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States”
“… Black women have higher college attendance rates than white men, conditional on parental income.” — “Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States”
“…incarceration rates are very low for both black and white females across the parental income distribution.” — “Race and Economic Opportunity in the United States”
“Black wife/White husband marriages are 44% less likely to end in divorce than White wife/White husband couples over the same period.” —Interracial marriage in the United States (referencing “But Will It Last?”: Marital Instability Among Interracial and Same-Race Couples by Jenifer…
