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Originally Posted by DanaC
And the middleclass white man still carries far more power than any of them overall. Look at the percentages of women and ethnic minorities at the higher management levels in business and look at how many of your senators and congressmen are white men.
We get the same arguments over here about the apparent power of ethnic minorities and women. Yet the paygap between men and women in this country is still 17.5% across a lifetime. The economic gap between black and white even bigger and the gap between Pakistani and white even greater than that.
There is a massive economic gap between black Americans and white. There is an economic gap between American men and American women. Economic power counts for a lot in a capitalist society. When the political power is also held most firmly by the same group it's difficult to make a case for power residing anywhere but in a white man's hand.
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If we look at the representation of ethnic minorities in our Congress they are over represented.
Your pay gap statistics don't mean squat. Women and minorities have come a long way in removing those barriers to pay. A long way.