The State of the U.S. Labor Market for Black Women

Occupational Segregation of Black Women Workers in the U.S.

Conversely, Black women workers are largely locked out of higher-paying occupations held by nearly half of the national workforce. Black women ...

5 Facts About Black Women in the Labor Force

Black women are an integral part of the American labor force but have long faced a pay gap due to longstanding inequities in education and ...

Understanding black-white disparities in labor market outcomes ...

Another defining feature of racial inequality in the labor market is the significant pay disparities between black and white workers. In 2019, ...

Black women still face inequities in today's strong labor market

Today's data show that Black women are 6.8 percent of the adult labor force in January 2024 and have an unemployment rate of 4.8 percent. Black ...

Unstable Work is All Too Common, Especially for Black Women

These wage disparities and the concentration of Black women in vulnerable work arrangements didn't occur spontaneously. Long-standing workforce ...

Unemployment fell for Black women in February, more joined labor ...

Black women saw their labor force participation rate rise to 63.4% from 62.9%, and their unemployment rate slide to 4.4% from 4.8%.

Black workers' views and experiences in the U.S. labor force stand ...

Among Black Americans, the unemployment rate was 6.3% for men and 6.0% for women. This compared with around 3% each for White and Asian men and ...

2024 Q2 | State Unemployment by Race and Ethnicity

The second quarter of 2024 saw slight softening in a strong labor market as unemployment rates increased across groups and disparities remained unchanged.

Rejecting Business as Usual | National Partnership for Women ...

Improving the employment outcomes and economic well-being of Black women requires more than an understanding of their labor force participation ...

African American Women in the Federal Sector

Overall, women accounted for 48.2% of the CLF, compared to 43.4% of the civilian Federal workforce. Figure 1. Federal Workforce and Civilian Labor Force ...

Fact Sheet: The State of Women in the Labor Market in 2023

The labor force participation rate for prime-age women hit 77.0 percent, exceeding the level in 2019 (76.0 percent) and setting a new high for ...

Respect and Value Black Women's Work - CLASP

Black workers have historically faced discrimination in the U.S. workforce, despite their contributions to building America and its economy.

April Jobs Report: Black women's employment rate at 22-year high

And yet, across just about every measure, Black women have more than fully rebounded. Black women's labor force participation rate is up 2.2 ...

Structural Racism And Black Women's Employment In The US ...

More than one in five Black women in the labor force (23 percent) are employed in the health care sector, and among this group, Black women have the highest ...

Labor force characteristics by race and ethnicity, 2022 : BLS Reports

The labor force participation rate was 74.9 percent and 70.1 percent for Asian adult men and White adult men, respectively. Among adult women, Blacks (62.0 ...

Black women gain ground in labor market but still face unique barriers

The last time the Black unemployment rate was below 5.5% was in September 2019, while Black women last had a sub-5% unemployment rate in ...

The Three Labor Market Struggles Facing Black America

Black men and women work in a wider variety of jobs today than in 1960, but progress on reducing occupational segregation has basically stalled ...

Occupational Segregation in America - Center for American Progress

Highly gender-segregated labor markets depress wages for all women in that market but particularly the earnings of Black women. Devaluation ...

Racial Differences in American Women's Labor Market Outcomes

One aspect of labor market status that has defied long-run convergence is the black-white difference in the likelihood of unemployment among women. In the ...

Black Women's Economic Recovery Continues to Lag - DOL Blog

Recovery has been uneven across demographics. Black women have faced the slowest recovery, with 2.6% fewer adult Black women employed in ...