Name: 兩性工資差距正在縮小--男性工資正在下降。 (Gender Wage Gap is Shrinking - Male Wages are Going Down)
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PAUL JAY: Welcome to this week's edition of The Bill Black Financial and Fraud Report.

I'm Paul Jay. This is The Real News Network.

And now joining us from Kansas City, Missouri, is Bill Black, where he's an associate professor

of economics and law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He's a white-collar

criminologist, a former financial regulator, and author of the book The Best Way to Rob

JAY: So what have you been thinking about, working on this week?

BLACK: Well, this week has had two studies come out on the gender wage gap. And they

both look at only one portion of that wage gap. And so I've been thinking about this

and channeling to some fair extent my spouse's work and her coauthor, Naomi Cahn's. This

The general thing is that the gender wage gap overall over the last, say, 30 years has

shrunk. But most of that so-called improvement doesn't come so much from women who are relatively

less wealthy doing fabulously in terms of income; it comes from the fact that men in

lower income brackets are doing horrifically. They've just fallen off the cliff over the

last 30 years or so. And so the gender wage gap has fallen, but it's not exactly something

Meanwhile, the gap in gender has actually grown and grown substantially for people that

have college degrees and beyond. And what's going on here, I think, is two aspects of

the same overall phenomenon, and that is the enormous rise of finance in the United States

So finance, which is just supposed to be this kind of pretty small middle-man activity,

is now back up to record levels it was at before the crisis of having 40 percent of

the total corporate profits in America, roughly. Now, that's terrible news, to begin with,

for the economy, because you don't want the middlemen to get rich; you want the productive

people to be getting rich, and the middlemen are supposed to just be helping them get the

money to be productive. Instead, they're obviously, you know, functioning largely like parasites

But it is finance that is largely driving the push for globalization, which is a word

that means many things to many different people, but in this context I'm talking about the

race to the bottom in terms of wages. And I mean wages as opposed to salaries, typically,

And so what we're seeing is--and this first study, which was by Third Way, which is this

group that pretends sometimes to be center-left but is actually completely a creation of Wall

Street--it's run by Wall Street for Wall Street with this false flag operation as if it were

a center-left group. It's nothing of the sort. Well, they hired an economist to do a study

about the gender gap, and they ballyhooed it as, hey, good news, the gender gap is falling.

Then you have to actually read the study to see that, well, no, it's actually bad news.

And then their spin on the story--remember, this is supposedly a center-left group--is,

see, the Democrats are wrong in concentrating on jobs and employment; this is really a cultural

matter. So that was the spin put on this study.

And I did quite a piece on the Third Way exposing this and the fact that it really is economics.

It's the economics of change, and to some extent the wave of incarceration of African

Americans, but basically these two things coming together to devastate the working class

in the United States. So yet again it's finance largely driving it on the bottom of the income

But it turns out it's also finance driving the ever-expanding gender gap at the top of

the income distribution. So the American Association of University Women have just come out with

a study on what's behind the gender gap, and they showed that upon graduation it's already

significant. There's a 20 percent differential simply as men and women come out of university.

But after that, as they get more experience, the gender gap widens.

JAY: Now, Bill, is this particular to people working in the finance sector? Or it's throughout

BLACK: It's in general happening in many sectors. It's not happening throughout corporate America.

It's happening in the most elite institutions in terms of compensation. So it's happening

in the most elite doctors, and it's happening mostly in finance.

And, again, finance is so large as the elite of the elite of the elite. This isn't even

the 1 percent we're talking about; this is the 0.001 percent in some cases. You see that

gender inequality has exploded in these areas. And, of course, overall inequality has exploded

And what's particularly fun is that there was a third study that came out in this same

week, and this third study says, you know what, actually, women make far better senior

managers than men, that if there's no woman on the board of directors, there's a 20 percent

increased chance that a corporation will go into bankruptcy.

JAY: I'm not sure why it would apply to doctors, but in finance I could offer a theory. This

is of course just a speculation. But at any rate, there was a study done of the Vancouver

stock exchange by a doctor Elliott Barker, who had developed this criteria for deciding

or measuring, judging whether someone has a sociopathic personality or not and found--I

think it was--the number was extraordinary--more than half--I think it was almost 60 percent

of the Vancouver Stock Exchange measured in the sociopathic area. And maybe if men do--a

higher percentage of men do tend to be sociopaths, and maybe sociopaths do better in finance.

So maybe that would--may be why they want to hire more men.

BLACK: Well, they don't do better. They do worse. They cause massively greater losses.

But they get higher incomes and they get promotions. That's the terrible thing, right?

JAY: Well, do better in terms of the criteria of management that are going to share in the

BLACK: That's right. They follow strategies. And that's actually the fourth study. So the

fourth study I've alluded to before is by--but, again, it's very recent. It's by conservative

finance professors, and it finds that at our most reputable, quote-unquote, banks, fraud

was pervasive and that the banks made a ton of money through their fraud for the officers--not

for the banks, of course. And so all of these things come together.

You are correct that when we look at senior executives throughout industry, we do find

that there's an unusually heavy percentage in the senior leadership of sociopaths. Now,

that's still a relatively small number. So I'm not familiar with the Vancouver Stock

But yes, most people have the sense that finance gets the worst of the worst personality types.

And in terms of the gender gap, it is one of the areas throughout the elite world which

is the most viciously sexist. And so this the studies and the lawsuits show, and of

course the expose books, like Liar's Poker and such, help reveal just how nasty these

But it turns out, if we flip it around, of course, we have a potential win-win-win. If

we reduce the gender disparities, which are enormous in the upper ranks of finance, by

bringing many more women in, we get fewer sociopaths, we get fewer folks with extreme

narcissism, we get increased altruism--and there's another new study that says the way

to be a better manager is to help people. Well, that's altruism at its extreme and such.

And we get better decisions, right, less fraud, better investment decisions, so that the economy

tends to grow and be more stable. So what we have is modern finance is driving both