No relation at all to ATTITUDE about money but rather INCOME/EARNING POTENTIAL. White men top the list in the US with women and people of color lagging behind - not just when comparisons of groups of people are made but when you are looking at wage compensation for comparable positions.
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763170.html
The Equal Pay Act was signed in 1963, making it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who hold the same job and do the same work. At the time of the EPA's passage, women earned just 58 cents for every dollar earned by men. By 2006, that rate had only increased to 77 cents, an improvement of less than half a penny a year. Minority women fare the worst. African-American women earn just 64 cents to every dollar earned by white men, and for Hispanic women that figure drops to merely 52 cents per dollar.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in 2007 female financial advisors earned 53.7% of the median weekly wages of male financial advisors, and women in sales occupations earned just 64.8% of men's wages in equivalent positions.
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http://www.stats.govt.nz/products-an...7-qtr-hotp.htm
Average weekly income from all sources for the 2007 June quarter:
was up 10.4 percent for males (to $832) and up 7.8 percent for females (to $510), from the June 2006 quarter.
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http://www.stats.govt.nz/products-an...=para004Master
Scroll down to see breakdown of income based on ethnicity in NZ