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Column: Black women health - Breastfeeding: Empowering Black Women
Online Brazilian Journal of Nursing, 2007 Breastfeeding is related to women’s reproduction and health. All women have the right to breastfeed as enshrined in the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC).
Isabel CF da Cruz
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Experiences of and support for black women in ecology, evolution, and marine science
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Systemic racism and sexism are well documented in ecology, evolution, and marine science. To combat this, institutions are making concerted efforts to recruit more diverse people by focusing on the recruitment of Black people.
Nikki Traylor-Knowles +16 more
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Health Affairs, 2022 Few studies have illustrated how racism influences Black women's use of reproductive health care services. This article presents findings of a collaborative study conducted by a research team and a reproductive justice organization to understand Black ...
T. Thompson +6 more
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Structural Racism And Black Women's Employment In The US Health Care Sector.
Health Affairs, 2022 The objective of this study was to describe how structural racism and sexism shape the employment trajectories of Black women in the US health care system.
Janette S Dill, M. Duffy
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Creativity, Resilience and Resistance: Black Birthworkers’ Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Frontiers in Sociology, 2021 This article documents the experiences of Black birthworkers supporting pregnant and birthing people and new mamas during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Julia Chinyere Oparah +6 more
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Black Women Speak: Examining Power, Privilege, and Identity in CS Education
ACM Transactions on Computing Education, 2021 Despite the increasing number of women receiving bachelor’s degrees in computing (i.e., Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, etc.), a closer look reveals that the percentage of Black women in computing has significantly dropped
Yolanda A. Rankin, J. Thomas, S. Erete
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Health Affairs, 2021 Structural racism causes significant inequities in the diagnosis of perinatal and maternal mental health disorders and access to perinatal and maternal mental health treatment. Black birthing populations are particularly burdened by disjointed systems of
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Criticality Is Crucial: Fidelity in What We Say and What We Do
Studies in Engineering Education, 2021 Martin and Garza’s (2020) article presented a commendable case for empowering marginalized students in engineering education research at a poignant moment in global history.
James Holly, Jr.
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Gynocentrism in Langston Hughes selected poetic works
RUDN Journal of Studies in Literature and Journalism, 2022 Gynocentrism exclusive focuses on women both as theory and practice. Anything can be considered gynocentric when it is concerned exclusively with a female point of view. The works of Langston Hughes, which reflect the intersection of races and genders in
R. Prathap Chandran, P. Kumaresan
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The Early Impact of Covid-19 on Job Losses among Black Women in the United States
, 2021 Given that a high proportion of workers in “essential” sectors of the US economy are Black women, this paper seeks to answer the following: in which occupations did Black women in the US experience the greatest job losses during the early phase of the ...
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