Workplace wage discrimination against black women took three distinct structural forms.
Evidence
This wage discrimination seems to have taken three forms. Employers have sometimes segregated the Colored workers, keeping the wage scale of the Colored departments lower than that of similar departments made up of White workers…. A second method has been to deny the Colored the opportunity of competing in piece work, as in the case of the Colored pressers in the needle trades who were paid
10.00 a week on a time rate basis, while the White pressers averaged12.00 a week at piece work. The third form of discrimination has been the frank refusal of employers to pay a Colored woman as much as a White woman for a week’s work. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 399
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Employers paid black women less than white women for identical work. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 397
Related
- Employers paid black women less than white women for identical work. (similarity 0.91)
- Black women wage-earners faced assault from both white and black men. (similarity 0.79)
- White women entered the work force later but advanced faster than black women (similarity 0.79)