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  2. Occupational segregation - Wikipedia

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    Women in female-dominated jobs pay two penalties: the average wage of their jobs is lower than that in comparable male-dominated jobs, and they earn less relative to men in the same jobs. Since 1980, occupational segregation is the single largest factor of the gender pay gap, accounting for over half of the wage gap. [31]

  3. Racial inequality in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This theory argues that the effects of racial segregation pushed Blacks and Hispanics into the central city during a time period in which jobs and opportunities moved to the suburbs. This led to geographic separation between minorities and job opportunities which was compounded by struggles to commute to jobs in the suburbs due to lack of means ...

  4. Racial segregation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Segregation was enforced across the U.S. for much of its history. Racial segregation follows two forms, De jure and De facto. De jure segregation mandated the separation of races by law, and was the form imposed by slave codes before the Civil War and by Black Codes and Jim Crow laws following the war.

  5. Occupational inequality - Wikipedia

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    The greater the segregation in a workplace, the greater the occupational inequality. [11] This is true specifically for jobs dominated by a certain minority or women. [11] They often have bad work environments and less income than white males who usually make up the managerial positions with better work environments and more pay. [11]

  6. Duncan Segregation Index - Wikipedia

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    The Duncan Segregation Index is a measure of occupational segregation based on gender that measures whether there is a larger than expected presence of one gender over another in a given occupation or labor force by identifying the percentage of employed women (or men) who would have to change occupations for the occupational distribution of men and women to be equal.

  7. Managers are getting less training, and it's hurting companies

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    On-the-job training for managers dropped substantially over the past five years, with major repercussions for their employees and organizations. In 2023, managers received an average of 50 days of ...

  8. Racism in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Segregation continued even after the demise of the Jim Crow laws. Data on house prices and attitudes towards integration suggest that in the mid-20th century, segregation was a product of collective actions taken by whites to exclude Blacks from their neighborhoods. [ 150 ]

  9. Prisoners of Profit - The Huffington Post

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    Youth counselors for YSI — those who work directly with juvenile inmates — earn about $10.50 an hour, or just under $22,000 per year, according to contract proposals from 2010. Because of frequent turnover and absences among staff, double shifts are common, adding additional stress to the job, former employees said.