Comments on: Race and Jobs: People of Color Disproportionately Don’t Have Access to Good Jobs http://inclusionparadox.com/people-of-color-disproportionately-dont-have-access-to-good-jobs/ Inclusion Paradox The Book Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:13:12 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Curtis Edwards http://inclusionparadox.com/people-of-color-disproportionately-dont-have-access-to-good-jobs/comment-page-1/#comment-327 Curtis Edwards Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:26:20 +0000 http://inclusionparadox.com/?p=1924#comment-327 This article is particularly interesting in the sense that it so loosely defines a "good job." With only those three requirements, one would assume that a more significant percentage of men would have good jobs, regardless of race or ethnicity. With that aside, I wonder, are those three requirements the true definition of a "good job," or does the notion of a "good job" culturally vary? Perhaps people of color emphasize other factors, such as proximity to home, work-hours, and other variables over health care and retirement. For example: take a look at the study that Hewitt and Ariel Investments published earlier this year on race and retirement contribution rates. The results disclose that there are significant differences in regards to contribution rates and race and ethnicity: perhaps there is a correlation between those results and this particular study. Being an optimist, I can only hope that there are more individuals in culturally relative "good jobs" than this study shows. This article is particularly interesting in the sense that it so loosely defines a “good job.” With only those three requirements, one would assume that a more significant percentage of men would have good jobs, regardless of race or ethnicity.

With that aside, I wonder, are those three requirements the true definition of a “good job,” or does the notion of a “good job” culturally vary? Perhaps people of color emphasize other factors, such as proximity to home, work-hours, and other variables over health care and retirement. For example: take a look at the study that Hewitt and Ariel Investments published earlier this year on race and retirement contribution rates. The results disclose that there are significant differences in regards to contribution rates and race and ethnicity: perhaps there is a correlation between those results and this particular study.

Being an optimist, I can only hope that there are more individuals in culturally relative “good jobs” than this study shows.

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