It's the Brian Laird show on W.N. Y.C.

It's the Brian Layer 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

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.

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