Gay Married Coupl Earn More Than Heterosexual On | Money

Contents:

• ARE GAY MEN REALLY RICH?
• GAY COUPL MORE EDUTED, HIGHER-INE THAN HETEROSEXUAL COUPL
• GAY MALE UPL HAVE THE HIGHT
• GAY MONEY
• PERCENTAGE OF GAY UPLE HOEHOLDS U.S. 2021, BY HOEHOLD E
• THE MYTH OF GAY AFFLUENCE
• THE NEW STEM GAP: STUDY CONFIRMS GAY MEN ARE LS LIKELY THAN STRAIGHT MEN TO BE IN STEM FIELDS
• GAY MEN USED TO EARN LS THAN STRAIGHT MEN; NOW THEY EARN MORE

ARE GAY MEN REALLY RICH?

Lee BADGETT: One possibily is a gay person says, well, I know I’m gog to face some stigma and discrimatn the labor market, maybe my bt fense agast havg an e disadvantage is to get a lot of tn. Also, gay hoeholds are said to spend 50 percent more on pet re products – so if you’re a dog, and you want to be pampered, havg gay parents seems like a good ia.

GAY COUPL MORE EDUTED, HIGHER-INE THAN HETEROSEXUAL COUPL

That gay men are more affluent, probably bee they’re more highly ted, and bee they’re much ls likely to have kids, which means they have the money to live really nice neighborhoods.

DUBNER: Okay, so if the Cens don’t ask directly about sexual orientatn, how do we know what we’ve been tellg you about – that, for stance, gay upl earn about 20 percent more than straight upl?

GAY MALE UPL HAVE THE HIGHT

Badgett says that, while her data may not be so great eher, appears that if you took two observatnally equivalent men — same background, same tn, and so on – that the gay man would earn ls than the straight man, not more.

GAY MONEY

In fact, earlier this year, Badgett and two -thors released a Williams Instute study which found that gays and lbians are more likely to live poverty than observatnally equivalent heterosexuals. Now, you may be a b spic of such a claim ma by an stute dited to sexual-orientatn issu but, assumg ’s legimate, the next obv qutn would be: why aren’t gays earng more? BLACK: I thk there is some good evince that gay men do take occupatns that are, you know, they look more female like, and of urse female occupatns tradnally pay a ltle b lower so that uld expla a part of .

PERCENTAGE OF GAY UPLE HOEHOLDS U.S. 2021, BY HOEHOLD E

Now, aga, keep md, an analysis like this reli on self-intified gay men who live wh a same-sex partner but, among that group, a gay man was about 16 tim more likely than a straight man to teach prchool or krgarten.

And I spect that that differential treatment between the gay and the straight applints is likely to be seen other ways, if we uld actually study this further to the employment procs.

So when we ask a private, veiled way, people are more likely to adm that they would be unfortable havg a gay manager, or that they thk ’s okay to discrimate agast gays and lbians. BLACK: Well uld have negative effects on enomic out the sense that particular I thk givg greater accs to adoptn on the part of gay and lbian upl might duce them to suffer, if you will, the nsequenc of havg children, and of urse achieve the obv benefs to havg children as well.

THE MYTH OF GAY AFFLUENCE

So if you already thk that gay men are relatively affluent, and then you see a few really nice neighborhoods that happen to be gay neighborhoods – well, nfirms your view. Women who are same-sex upl and the labor force tend to make far more money than siar women heterosexual upl, while men gay upl tend to make slightly ls than their heterosexual unterparts.

People gay upl are also more likely to be the labor force (that is, workg or lookg for a job) than their heterosexual unterparts, and they're far more likely to be highly are a few of the datapots om a new report on the mographics of Ameri's same-sex upl. The men gay upl ma $47, 000 to the heterosexuals' $48, is possible that gay men are makg ls money than heterosexual men bee of outright discrimatn, says Gat, but he says that a more subtle force may be at work.

Image source: Getty Imag2021's Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr, and Queer (LGBTQ) Pri Month is the first to be officially regnized by a print sce 2016 -- certaly e for celebratn! Among both straight and gay upl, hoeholds often have an unequal distributn of e, meang that one partner earns signifintly more than the other (or at least two-thirds of the sum of both primary ).

THE NEW STEM GAP: STUDY CONFIRMS GAY MEN ARE LS LIKELY THAN STRAIGHT MEN TO BE IN STEM FIELDS

Difference primary e between partners1)2), 2017 Signifintly lower (%)Equal (%)Signifintly higher (%)Heterosexual upleMale partner84151Heterosexual upleFemale partner51418Homosexual upleMale partner255025Homosexual upleFemale partner2256221) Except s where the sum of the primary equals zero. In the se of partners wh the lowt number of hours (cludg those not work), workg hours are more divergent: homosexual men work an average 1, 200 hours, heterosexual men and lbian women 1, 100 hours and heterosexual women 900 hours. On average, heterosexual men earn 5 thoand ros more per year than their homosexual unterparts, while heterosexual women earn 14 thoand ros ls on average than lbians.

GAY MEN USED TO EARN LS THAN STRAIGHT MEN; NOW THEY EARN MORE

Average primary annual e of persons wh a partner, 20171)2)GlachtKoppelIne (x 1, 000 ros)MaleHeterosexual64MaleHomosexual58FemaleHeterosexual36FemaleHomosexual491) Sexual orientatn based on partner registratn.

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