Women’s Issues: Human Issues Women’s earnings as a percentage of men’s earnings within race/ ethnicity
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Women’s earnings as a percentage of white men’s earnings
HISPANIC or LATINA
AFRICAN AMERICAN
82%
WHITE
77%
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