How Discrimination in the Workplace Impacts Black Women’s Health & Well-Being
success.com, discrimination and harassment at work. Black women in the United States are more likely to die from pregnancy or childbirth than women in any other racial group.”“There’s a lot of research that shows that Black women who are encountering discrimination problems in the workplace experience poor health outcomes that hurt their overall health and well-being,” Frye says.For example, the National Partnership notes that “detrimental health outcomes are linked to both the accumulated burden of racism-associated stress that has built up over centuries and to institutional and interpersonal racism in the workplace.”For more than 15 years, Sierra Carter, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychology at Georgia State University, has done this kind of research, including studying the impact of racism on Black Americans.
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