Height is far more visible (and objective!) than intelligence. EDIT: And the segregation between men and women is much smaller than the segregation between blacks and whites.
And the segregation between men and women is much smaller than the segregation between blacks and whites.
That sounds questionable to me.
Obviously men and women aren’t geographically segregated in the same way that whites and blacks often are, but socially, economically, and politically, I think the disparity might be greater. (In the US, the income disparity between men and women is greater than that between whites and blacks, for instance.) I’m not saying I’m necessarily very confident about this, but if it’s true that “the segregation between men and women is much smaller than the segregation between blacks and whites”, then I would be interested in hearing your definitions and evidence.
Depending on exactly what you mean, I might or might not agree with the premise that the segregation is greater. But in any case, I don’t think it has the same effect.
Geographic segregation means some whites may encounter very few blacks. Economic and political segregation doesn’t mean that men do not encounter women and vice-versa. Social segregation is one of those fuzzy things again. Yes, most people have a biased sex-ratio of friends, but the world isn’t Saudi Arabia, and men and women do see each other daily. The fact that blacks are a minority, whereas women and men are near parity also affects things.
The graph you link to doesn’t specify where it came from, how it was measured, or more specifically whether/how it counts housewives / married couples.
Looking at the source data files, I’m guessing there are a lot of zero incomes to be explained there, as well as things like unpaid maternity leave. I’m not sure what it’s appropriate for my wife to write in the census − 0 or my salary or half my salary.
There is probably still a gender gap, but it remains to be shown that it’s greater than the race gap.
If nobody is willing to dispute—or even to state they are seriously skeptical—about some aspect of a particular claim, what’s the point of digging up evidence/cites to support that aspect of that claim?
Height is far more visible (and objective!) than intelligence. EDIT: And the segregation between men and women is much smaller than the segregation between blacks and whites.
That sounds questionable to me.
Obviously men and women aren’t geographically segregated in the same way that whites and blacks often are, but socially, economically, and politically, I think the disparity might be greater. (In the US, the income disparity between men and women is greater than that between whites and blacks, for instance.) I’m not saying I’m necessarily very confident about this, but if it’s true that “the segregation between men and women is much smaller than the segregation between blacks and whites”, then I would be interested in hearing your definitions and evidence.
Depending on exactly what you mean, I might or might not agree with the premise that the segregation is greater. But in any case, I don’t think it has the same effect.
Geographic segregation means some whites may encounter very few blacks. Economic and political segregation doesn’t mean that men do not encounter women and vice-versa. Social segregation is one of those fuzzy things again. Yes, most people have a biased sex-ratio of friends, but the world isn’t Saudi Arabia, and men and women do see each other daily. The fact that blacks are a minority, whereas women and men are near parity also affects things.
The graph you link to doesn’t specify where it came from, how it was measured, or more specifically whether/how it counts housewives / married couples.
Where it came from: 2005 US Census. Probably doesn’t make any such distinctions between married and unmarried women.
Looking at the source data files, I’m guessing there are a lot of zero incomes to be explained there, as well as things like unpaid maternity leave. I’m not sure what it’s appropriate for my wife to write in the census − 0 or my salary or half my salary.
There is probably still a gender gap, but it remains to be shown that it’s greater than the race gap.
Agreed. But so what?
If nobody is willing to dispute—or even to state they are seriously skeptical—about some aspect of a particular claim, what’s the point of digging up evidence/cites to support that aspect of that claim?