Do you have any actual statistics or facts to buttress your sniping?
Nope.
Toni, since you refuse to answer my questions, I'll explain to you why your scenario is
incoherent.
I have a brother and two sisters. Whatever wealth accumulation my parents and their parents have built up due to generations of white privilege will flow to us when my mother dies. But, if that's true for the white men in the family, it's also true for the white women in the family.
My own sisters cannot come from a poorer background than me. If I benefit from my ancestor's accumulation of wealth, than surely my sisters must also, unless white women consistently inherit less than their brothers.
Did you family accumulate wealth due to white privilege, Toni? If so, how is it that you have not benefited from this accumulation, while the the men in your family have? Did you parents, or do your parents plan to, leave the daughters in the family less inheritance?
Hey, Metaphor: I don't sit by my computer waiting for demands for my attention from you.
Things may be different in Australia but in the US, parents are not compelled to divide their estates equally among their offspring or to even leave anything at all to their offspring.
Historically, in some states, women could not inherit OR if they did inherit, upon marriage, their husband assumed control if not outright ownership of his wife's assets. This is no longer the case, but only relatively recently. Still some parents leave certain kinds of assets to their daughters and different assets to their sons. Sometimes, a large asset such as a farm or a business is left to an offspring who has shown the most interest and talent/competence in that business or asset. Sometimes assets are divided unevenly because of some real or perceived need of some one or more of the offspring or because some/one of the offspring is disinherited for whatever reason or is seen as unfit or whatever. Many times, a child who remains at home or returns to the home to care for elderly parents in their declining years may inherit the family home.
Aside from that, women were limited in terms of the types of careers they could hold and the types and levels of education they could pursue.
As I pointed out earlier, until about 1974, women did not have the same right to apply for credit or loans as men did, even if they were the main or sole bread winner. Women applying for a mortgage were often required to provide a male co-signer. It takes more than the signage of a law for that law to be enacted and followed. And it takes more than 40 or 50 years to make up for centuries of inequality.
It's great, btw, that your sisters will inherit equally with you. Not all families do that. Sometimes, there is a gender difference, and sometimes there is a difference because of different circumstances of the siblings or the perceived -or real-- needs of particular offspring. I know families where everything was divided equally among surviving children. I know of families where one child was disinherited (for good reason) or where one child inherited a certain valuable asset which was not offset by other assets flowing to other children.
Since you asked, my siblings and I inherited equal shares of a very small estate.
For the most part, my family of origin never had a great deal of wealth. Much/most of what was accumulated prior was wiped out or nearly so by the Great Depression. Grandparents divided their very meager estates between surviving children who were able to use those assets to improve their own positions, economically speaking, although progress was modest. For myself and my siblings: our ability to accumulate more wealth was primarily due to the greater opportunities for education that our parents made certain we were able to take advantage of.
Did being white help? Certainly it did! My parents and grandparents never had very much but they were able to go to school longer than if they had been black. In the area where I lived, there were lots of farmers but all of them were white--and in my county--many of them were related to each other--and to my grandparents. My father chose not to farm and managed to work his way from a watchman at a warehouse to middle management---something that would never have happened if he had had black skin. I know this because there were no management members who were black when he worked there. Despite only a high school diploma, which did limit his ability to advance further in his career, he managed to ensure that his offspring had a much more stable upbringing and much greater access--well, access which he did not have--to higher education and pushed us all to do as well as we could so that we could earn scholarships to attend university--which we did do.
When I went to university, I spent more time in class with not white people than I had collectively throughout my entire life. I learned from friends who were black that they were all counseled to pursue careers in urban development and urban planning, with a high concentration in sociology. These are not usually very lucrative careers. In my calculus classes, there was exactly one black student, a woman who was the best student in the class. In a chemistry lecture of about 400 students, there were two black men. OTOH, I was steered into courses in science and mathematics--which is where I wanted to go. But my black friends had to fight to get the chance to enroll in those classes.
