This graph is making the rounds again on other social media sites. It begs the question "Why do men pay off their student loans, but women can't/won't?"
It's not Black history month, but you already know the answer!
Black women are forced to borrow more for their education. Then Black women are paid less when they graduate, even for the same degree.
A disproportionate amount of the $1.7 Trillion of loan debt (not a typo. Trillion. With a "T.") is held by Black women that did everything right)
Yes, women are more likely to major in humanities. But women are also more likely to major in natural sciences too.🙂🙃
Women are more likely to get a degree in general! Because women are more likely to finish college. Women have earned more bachelors degrees than men for the past 20 years.
Men are more likely to major in low pay Religion, History, and Philosophy. Then they use those degrees to start podcasts and complain about women not majoring in practical things like natural sciences
There's a painful joke about this: Men tend to get high paying jobs like software engineer, doctor, or lawyer, whereas women tend to get lower paying jobs, like woman software engineer, woman doctor, or woman lawyer. That's not much of a joke.
Yes, there's a huge problem with what our society chooses to value and prioritize. We devalue work we see as gendered. But even within a given field of study or career, racism and sexism create significant gaps in compensation.
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