This book is complete rubbish. It would be tiresome to review every chapter or even most of it, but the chapter on The Wage Gap: Myths And Facts is as good as any to analyse. The term “people of color” is used throughout the book, as here, and on page 144 the reader is told "The U.S. labor force is segregated by sex and race”.
Yes and no. The word segregation used in this sense implies compulsion. In 1992, the year concerned, there was little in the United States that was segregated by race, and women were excluded from certain fields simply because…Even today, there are few women working in engineering and related fields, not because they are excluded by law but because this is not women’s work, however much idiots like the authors of this book whine about gender being a social construct.
Page 146: “The Wage Gap is One of the Major Causes of Economic Inequality in the United States Today”. No it was not and is not.
Page 147: “The Cause of the Wage Gap is Discrimination”.
No it is not. In practice, the only way such a wage gap can be enforced is by legislation, and legislation “against differential pay rates" for men and women was enacted in the United States back in the 1960s.
By the time this book was published, the gender pay gap myth had been thoroughly deconstructed by among others Thomas Sowell, yet even in 2017 the same type of idiots who wrote Race, Class And Gender…are pushing the same lies and nonsense and the same “solution”, ie legislation. Editor Rothenberg has gone on to write reams of rubbish about the chimera of white privilege, something for which, ironically, she is highly paid.
[The above book review was published originally on Medium, November 16, 2018].
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