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Economic Points Out How Racism Perpetuates Social Gap
Latent discrimination harms blacks and browns at school, in politics and in the labor market in Brazil
Jul.20.2020 12:41PM
Érica Fraga
SÃO PAULO
White women earn 14 percent more than black women who have the same age, education, and state of residence in Brazil. In 2019, this meant that, on average, black and brown women workers received R$ 475 less per month.
The inequality of female income by skin color increased in relation to 2012, when it was 11.5%, equivalent to R$ 364 per month (discounting inflation for the period).
In the case of Brazilian men, white men earn 13% more than their black peers with similar demographic and educational characteristics. This percentage, which represented R $ 624 less received by blacks and browns per month in 2019, has fluctuated little over the past seven years.
According to researcher Guilherme Hirata, a consultant with IDados who made the calculations for Folha, it is challenging to extract how much of these differences are related to skin color.
More:
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/business/2020/07/economic-points-out-how-racism-perpetuates-social-gap.shtml
