Couple the
stressors with limited
social support — most women scientists have
few such resources — and the imposter phenomenon, and it's easy to see why academic women often are an unhealthy lot.
Another explanation is that individuals who are part of a minority group (e.g., minority race, minority sexual orientation) learn coping skills to help deal with their minority status and are then able to transfer these same coping strategies when they enter an interracial same - sex relationship.7 It is possible, for instance, that the couples in the studies discussed above may have the exceptional ability to handle multiple
social stressors leading to
fewer problems with their interracial same - sex relationships than we might anticipate.