January 10, 2012 (The Editor’s Desk is updated each business day.)

Women's earnings as a percent of men's in 2010

Women's earnings as percent of men's, median usual weekly earnings of full-time wage and salary workers, in current dollars, by race and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 1980–2010 annual averages
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.

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