In contrast to blacks, women have reduced the education and income gaps between themselves and men. They now earn slightly more bachelor’s degrees than men do and have made moderate strides in income, shifting from 62 percent of what a man earned per hour in 1980 to 83 percent in 2016. Part of this reduced gap is due to women’s higher wages, and some is due to a decline in male wages—itself largely due to a decline in the male-dominant manufacturing sector.
