While the education and entrepreneurial statistics look promising, the economic security does not add up. Glad that I will soon be working to positively influence this... Latina women make disproportionately less than their male and non-Hispanic white counterparts. These disparities are leaving a growing portion of our population more vulnerable to poverty and its implications. Latina women make 55 cents to the dollar when compared to white, non-Hispanic males. In comparison, white women make 78.1 cents to the same dollar. Latina women make 88 percent of their male counterparts’ annual full-time earnings. Latina women earn $549 per week, compared with white women’s median earnings of $718. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 32.2 percent of Latina women work in the service sector, compared with only 20 percent of white women, and service workers are almost 20 percent less likely to have either paid sick leave or retirement benefits. According to a 2010 study, the median household wealth of single Latina women is $120, compared with single white women’s median household wealth of $41,500. Latina women with children have zero median wealth. From 2007 to 2012, the share of Latina women earning at or below minimum wage more than tripled. The number of working-poor Latina women is more than double that of white women, at 13.58 percent, compared with 6.69 percent. Poverty rates for Latina women, at 27.9 percent, are close to triple those of white women, at 10.8 percent. In 2012, the poverty rate for Latina women overall was 27.9 percent, compared with the rate for non-Hispanic white women at 10.8 percent. In Latina households, about 4 in 10 working wives were the primary breadwinners for their families, according to a 2010 CAP report. This doubles the rate from 1975. Latina women are 69 percent more likely to be incarcerated than white women, according to a 2007 report. In 2011, the American Civil Liberties Union asserted that incarceration particularly affects Latinas and black women as they are often the primary caregivers for their children and are also disproportionately victimized. Latinas saw a 14 percent increase in labor-force participation from 1970 to 2007, a notable rise.
Posted on: Sun, 10 Nov 2013 19:25:45 +0000
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