Black women are narrowing the gender wage gap, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

This chart shows black women earning 94% of black men’s full-time weekly wages in 2010, higher than comparisons among Hispanics (91%), Asians (83%), and Whites (81%). Previously the gap between Hispanic men and women had been the smallest of any group between 1990 and 2000.

One reason behind this could be that two-thirds of African Americans earning bachelor’s degrees are women, mirroring a larger trend in which women earned more diplomas overall than men over the last ten years.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/black-women-earnings–2012-1#ixzz1j6RYVqz7