"There are additional measures we need to think about when we think about 'Is the work environment and climate for Black women a good one?' Alongside whether or not they actually, you know, have the potential to get a job." — @mlholder999 #EconForBlackWomen
"The Black unemployment rate, the Black women's unemployment rate, is higher than the White unemployment rate at every level of education. So education is not an explanation for why there's a racial disparity or a gender disparity in unemployment rate." — @ValerieRWilson
"A lot of the conversations that we have are not just about Black women and being at the bottom. There's an aspect of the ways that we think about disadvantaged folks, low-wage workers, those who are poor, that also shade these conversations." — @RhondaVSharpe #EconForBlackWomen
"Black women have the highest labor participation rate of all major female demographic groups, including White women. So we have been workers for a very long time. Both unpaid. And paid." — @mlholder999 #EconForBlackWomen
.@ValerieRWilson says #COVID19 recovery has not been adequate enough to reduce Black women's unemployment rates to the same extent that national unemployment rate fell, leading to a much longer lasting impact, not only in employment and income, but ultimately wealth.
"Black women are thought of as workers, we're not thought of as mothers. And when you don't think of people as mothers, then whatever care they provide [...] that care is devalued." — @RhondaVSharpe #EconForBlackWomen
Black women play an increasingly critical role in our economy—as the economic engines for their families, as essential workers on the frontlines, and as consumers, yet the US economy doesn't deliver the same returns for them as it does for other workers. ampr.gs/2CJiwtV
