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In reply to the discussion: I'm surprised how many DU'ers think aknowledging white male privilege is somehow bigoted [View all]thucythucy
(8,048 posts)though it seems mostly to focus on health issues related to menopause. Stuff on how to deal with vaginal dryness, calcium loss in bones, etc.
Unfortunately, I don't see any links or footnotes offering supporting data for this conclusion. Nor do they break it down much. Are we talking about women millionaires and billionaires, that is, elites, or is the wealth more evenly distributed?
Another look at this same issue can be found here:
http://www.insightcced.org/uploads/CRWG/LiftingAsWeClimb-ExecutiveSummary-embargoed-0303.pdf
This is a report produced by the Center for Community Economic Development, and includes data on incomes and available wealth, and breaks down the data to show disparities between white couples, white singles, non-white couples, non-white singles, single men, single women, etc.
From what I can see there is still a fairly significant gender gap, which grows much larger when you also factor in race.
And then there's this, from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics: http://www.census.gov/population/socdemo/education/cps2007/tabA-3.xls
which demonstrates that as of 2007, "women who were full-time wage and salary workers
had median weekly earnings of $614, or about 80 percent of the $766 median for their male counterparts." Though there has been improvement since the 1970s, when the gender gap first began to be measured, there evidently is still a ways to go.
You seem hugely invested in this idea that somehow there is no such thing as male privilege, or at least male economic privilege. (No response to comments about factors such as sexual violence--I could add in the effects of domestic violence as well). Which would, ironically, seem to support the OP, on how some folks on DU have a great deal of trouble dealing with the reality of white male privilege in this society.