It's the Brian Lairor Show on WNYC. Good morning again, everyone.

Now we'll talk about one of the main drivers of inequality in our country and a detailed

new report that shines a light on it. It's a report

by the New York City Council data team that focused on what it calls job segregation. Council

studied the city government's own workforce, that's hundreds of thousands of people, so it's a big

sample, and found that for every dollar of pay that white male workers get, all other

employees get just 82 cents. Break it down further, and you see that black and Latino women

got paid only 68 cents for every dollar, a white male got paid. Now, here's the job segregation

part that is so defining. They found that

these paid disparities are not because anybody is getting paid less to do the same job. Pay was

the same in the same job title, regardless of the worker, that in and of itself is some progress.

But the report makes clear that women and employees of color

tend to be concentrated in lower paying jobs and in certain city agencies that contain those jobs.

That's job segregation. Another way to say it, as the share of women of color increases in any

specific job title, the pay goes down. Let's look at

some of those numbers and what the report says might be done about it and also talk about why it's

like this in the first place, right? Like, why does a social worker with a master's degree, let's say,

get paid less than a software engineer with a master's degree, let's say, get paid less than a software engineer with a master's degree,

let's say. Why does the marketplace, and not just in city government, but in the private sector,

as we know, value different jobs differently the way it does? We'll invite your calls to help

report this story in a minute and suggest solutions as we talk to city council

member Carmen de la Rosa from upper Manhattan, Washington Heights, inward, Marble Hill, who is the chair of

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