{"id":5742,"date":"2012-10-26T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=5742"},"modified":"2016-02-18T10:15:14","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T13:15:14","slug":"shrinking-inequality-incomes-of-blacks-and-northeasterners-increase-at-twice-the-average-rate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/?p=5742","title":{"rendered":"Shrinking Inequality? Incomes of Blacks and Northeasterners Increase at Twice the Average Rate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas\"\"<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

For the original article by Ag\u00eancia Globo\u00a0in Portuguese published in Pragmatismo Pol\u00edtico<\/em>\u00a0click<\/em> here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The incomes of middle class (\u201cClass C\u201d) blacks and northeasterners have grown at twice the national average. Women in this group saw their incomes rise by 76%, and men\u2019s incomes rose by 47%. 77% of men in Class C are sure their wives are hiding money.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Women’s incomes increased more than men’s. (File photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the last ten years the incomes of blacks and northeasterners grew at twice the average rate for Class C, according to data from the study \u201cVoices of Brazil\u201d and from Data Popular<\/a>. Between 2002 and 2012, the general growth rate for middle class income was 57% \u2013 but for blacks and northeasterners it was 123%.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe data shows that the middle class has grown, with a reduction in income inequality. There were more blacks and northeasterners among the poorest Brazilians, and the poorest were the most impacted by the higher minimum wage and access to better jobs,\u201d said Renato Meirelles, of Data Popular.<\/p>\n

Women<\/strong><\/p>\n

Middle class women\u2019s incomes increased more than men\u2019s, and so did their influence in family decisions, which points to an \u201cempowering\u201d of the female population, according to the study. Women\u2019s incomes increased by 76% in the last ten years, while men\u2019s increased by 47%.<\/p>\n

The total number of women in the middle class grew by 13% over the last ten years. The percentage of middle class women of working age grew by 19%, and the percentage of women working aboveboard grew by 59%.<\/p>\n

Of middle class men interviewed in the study, 78% said they would rather change their minds than argue with their wives, and 77% were certain their wives were saving money without telling them. 63% said their wives kept an eye on their shared bank accounts and knew exactly what they were earning.<\/p>\n

Middle class men are more likely than men of other classes to hold these attitudes toward women, says Mireilles, because women\u2019s empowerment is more recent in the middle class. \u201cThe process of female emancipation is more recent, and the men haven\u2019t learned to deal with it yet,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Women also have significant say in couples\u2019 decisions, according to the study. In the middle class, 85% of men said their wives were in charge of supermarket purchases, 78% said the women have more say over travel and vacation plans, and 72% said their wives picked out their clothes for them. Women also often had the final word in choosing the family car, at 62%.<\/p>\n

The study will be released at the \u201cNew Brazil Forum: Voices of the Brazilian Middle Class,\u201d to be held November 12 and 13 in S\u00e3o Paulo.<\/p>\n

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Clique aqui para Portugu\u00eas For the original article by Ag\u00eancia Globo\u00a0in Portuguese published in Pragmatismo Pol\u00edtico\u00a0click here. The incomes of middle class (\u201cClass C\u201d) blacks and northeasterners have grown at twice the national average. Women […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":5765,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1282,1330,328],"tags":[1278,203,740],"writer":[],"translator":[],"illustrator":[],"photographer":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-research-analysis","8":"category-translation","9":"category-understanding-rio","10":"tag-income","11":"tag-inequality","12":"tag-research-findings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"writer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwriter&post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"translator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftranslator&post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"illustrator","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fillustrator&post=5742"},{"taxonomy":"photographer","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rioonwatch.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fphotographer&post=5742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}