By Sheryl Estrada
Black women in the United States are hard workers, are leaders in entrepreneurship, excel academically and avidly participate in the political process, yet they are underpaid, are vulnerable to violence, suffer at a higher rate from major illnesses are and twice as likely as white women to be imprisoned.
The National Domestic Workers Alliance’s recently released report, “The Status of Black Women in the United States,” seeks to address the gap in research on Black women’s well being and to provide data that can inform policy and programmatic changes.
