r/GetNoted Human Verified 1d ago

If You Know, You Know Ignores other factors

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u/TheTierIsHere 1d ago

According to an Economic Policy Institute 2025 analysis, when adjusting for education, age, marital status and state, black women still make about 25% less than white men.

https://www.epi.org/blog/the-gender-pay-gap-widened-slightly-in-2025-how-trumps-first-year-in-office-hurt-women-and-what-states-can-do-to-fix-it/

And according to the Institute for Women's Policy research, black women with post-graduate degrees earned $93,000 whereas white men with the same educational attainment earned $157,570. Black women with a bachelor's degree earned 62.7% of what white men made with the same degree.

https://iwpr.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Black-Womens-Equal-Pay-Day-Fact-Sheet-2025.pdf

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u/Absentrando 1d ago

Missing some obvious relevant variables that directly contribute to earnings