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January 10, 2012 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)
Year | Total | White | Black or African American |
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity |
Asian |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1980 |
64.2 | 63.4 | 75.8 | 73.5 | — |
1990 |
71.9 | 71.5 | 85.3 | 87.4 | — |
2000 |
76.9 | 75.8 | 84.1 | 87.8 | 79.9 |
2010 |
81.2 | 80.5 | 93.5 | 90.7 | 82.6 |
Note: Data for Asians were not tabulated prior to 2000. |
These data are featured in the TED article, Women's earnings as a percent of men's in 2010.