(JOSE LUIS PELEAZ / GETTY IMAGES) Even though breast cancer incidence rates are slightly lower overall among African - American
women than white women (the incidence is lower still among Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women), a combination of socioeconomic factors and unexplained biological differences make the disease more deadly — and in some cases, harder to treat — in the black community.
The risk of maternal mortality has remained about three to four times higher among black
women than white women during the past six decades.
Not exact matches
FOR many wine drinkers, the word chianti conjures up images of red and
white checked tablecloths, men (and often
women) with an abundance of chest hair, and those squat, cane - wrapped bottles of brick - red wine more suited to stripping paint
than accompanyi
Non-Hispanic black (NHB)
women «continued to have higher breast cancer death rates
than [non-Hispanic
white]
women, with rates 39 % higher in NHB
women in 2015, although the disparity has ceased to widen since 2011.»
However, Haberman signed the book deal with fellow NYT
White House reporter Glenn Thrush, who was suspended less
than two months later following a report by Vox, detailing sexual misconduct allegations against him by several
women, including by the article's author.
It reports that
women are «more likely
than white men to report doing more office housework
than their colleagues» while they «have less access to glamour work
than white men do.»
They also drink more alcohol on average
than women of all races, as well as more
than men who are not
white.
While historically
white men and
women drink more
than their black and Hispanic counterparts, that gap is narrowing — again, primarily driven by
white Gen Zers drinking less.
Nationally, black
women have a maternal mortality rate three to four times higher
than white women, and the District suspects its gap is even wider.
«Jack Johnson's reputation was ruined by a racially motivated conviction more
than a century ago after he was charged with transporting a
white woman across state lines,» McCain said in 2017 as he unsuccessfully urged President Barack Obama to issue a pardon on his way out of office.
To bring attention to the fact that black
women earn 17 % less
than their
white female counterparts and that black
women are paid 63 % of the dollar men are paid.
Research published in September 2011 by the Level Playing Field Institute (LPFI) revealed that hidden biases within the I.T. workplace caused
women and blacks to have negative workplace experiences far more often
than their male and
white counterparts.
Late last year we signed the
White House Equal Pay Pledge, which encourages U.S. companies to take action to advance equal pay among men and
women, and most recently we've taken the Equal Pay Pledge on Glassdoor alongside more
than 3,000 companies.
On the other side, hispanic / latino
women graduated with the least amount of debt; they have $ 564 less to pay off
than white women.
Why is it so much easier for our society to believe
white women who say that patriarchy exists
than it is to believe people of color who say racism exists?
In fact, one - in - five men (19 %) say they have an overall positive view of the
White House's performance, more
than double the number of
women saying the same — just eight per cent.
It's not meant to be an attack on men, or
white men, or
white middle class men, but an attempt to open our eyes to perhaps perceive a little bit how we might have an advantage based on these markers, such as higher wages
than women in the same line of work.
Slightly more
than half (54 %) of
white evangelicals, according to the Pew Research Center study, favor completely overturning the 1973 Supreme Court decision that affirmed a
woman's right to have an abortion.
Having being on the receiving end of the «man - hater» comment more times
than I can count, seeing it listed as number one — in the form of «I like
white males so much I married one» — rubbed me the wrong way.Being called a man - hater is often unfairly used as a way to silence
women and dismiss their arguments outright, which is troubling, especially when it happens in the midst of a theological discussion.
Misusing Scripture to reinforce gender stereotypes based more on
white, American, post-World War II cultural ideals
than biblical truth doesn't protect
women; it harms them.
The hypocrisy here is staggering, for as everyone knows,
white evangelicals overwhelmingly support President Trump, a man who has been accused by more
than twenty
women of sexual assault, who is on record bragging about those assaults, and who was recently found in a Christianity Today poll to be evangelicals» «most trusted celebrity.»
The stark reality is that most
white Christians, including more
than 80 percent of
white evangelical Christians, supported Donald Trump for president, despite his evident immorality, bigotry, and disregard for the dignity of
women, (not to mention complete lack of qualification or competency).
In fact, how many Muslims believe in any
Woman's Right, Actually the Conservative
White Christian Republican Tea Party is TEN TIMES MORE MUSLIM
THAN OBAMA BECAUSE THEY BELIEVE THE SAME THING ABOUT
WOMEN»S RIGHT TO CHOSE OR LEAD!
It turns out that a lot more people, many of them well - educated and intelligent, were in the Trump «basket of deplorables»
than anyone imagined — including 53 percent of
white women.
«I would hope that a wise Latina
woman with the richness of her experiences would more often
than not reach a better conclusion
than a
white male who hasn't lived that life,» Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor
Statistics show that very few
women who give birth choose to give up their babies — less
than 3 % of
white unmarried
women and less
than 2 % of black unmarried
women.
Feminism challenges the legitimacy of sex roles Along with other social movements, feminism is rooted in the critique that a society so constructed that certain people and groups profit from inequalities — between men and
women, rich and poor, black and
white, etc. — is a society in which money is more highly valued
than love, justice, and human life itself.
The study also found men, people who live in cities and non-
white Americans are more likely to embrace other worldviews
than women, people living in suburbs and rural areas and
white Americans.
The only demographics that broke for Trump more
than white evangelicals were Republican men (90 %), Republican
women (89 %), and conservatives (81 %).
Noting that
white women typically talk about their decision differently
than either African - American or Latina
women, Rapp tackles head - on a question that would necessitate a reevaluation of her thesis.
The more involved
white evangelicals are with their churches, the more likely they voted for Trump, with
women who attend church more
than once a week showing slightly higher level of support (87.5 %)
than men (85 %).
Since the mid-1980s,
white evangelical
women have shifted more Republican
than white women overall, a move that has solidified as it becomes harder for pro-life
women to find a place in the Democratic Party.
According to a Pew Research Center report released last year, 40 percent of American
women oppose abortion in all or most circumstances, and
white evangelical Protestants are far more likely
than any other religious group to side against it.
Black and Latina
women tend to be poorer and are more often unemployed, and their abortion rates are two to three times higher
than those for
white women.
The trappers, who had not seen a
white woman for years, were more
than pleased when they met her.
Nor does «Colorism» (i.e., «yella» and half -
white black people valued more in the black world
than black - skinned people), which often separates black
women from each other.
But as it stands now, all we can say for certain is that in 1988 at Clemson University, among the mostly young
white students questioned, men had a greater tendency
than women to try and like fiery - foods.
Let me use an example from public health:
white woman have a higher rate of developing breast cancer over black
woman in the United States, yet even with more cases fewer
white woman die from breast cancer
than black
woman.
And as Johnson and Loscocco note, married black couples are at greater risk of divorce; they have lower marital happiness and satisfaction
than white spouses; they disagree more
than white spouses about such things as sex, kids and money; and black
women get less benefits from marriage
than white women and even black men do.
Some important statistics: Teenage mothers are depressed 2.5 times more
than older
women and African American
women suffer from PPD twice as often as
white women.
New York City statistics include the troubling finding that black
women here are nearly eight times more likely to die from pregnancy - related complications
than white mothers.
It seems that the rates reported in this database for low - risk pregnancies (excluding malpresentation and other factors) are all as good as or better in every category other
than intrapartum death rate of babies, which I am having a hard time finding in the other literature on hospital births in the U.S. for low - risk,
white women.
I ran a query for 2007 - 2010 on all states including only infants that were greater
than 2500 grams (term babies) among
white and non-hispanic
white women.
The proportions of
women who were
white, had private insurance or paid out of pocket, or were of advanced maternal age were higher among
women who planned out - of - hospital birth
than among those who planned in - hospital birth (Table 1).
White women are statistically a lot more likely to breastfeed
than black
women.
The authors of this study examined all races, but
white women account for more
than 90 % of
women choosing home birth, and the neonatal death rate for
white women is much lower
than that for all races.
Dear Abby: May I answer «Ed in East Illinois, «who asked: «Is it true that closely guarded tribal secrets on how to please a
woman are passed down from father to son, making Indians better lovers
than white men?
Its Committee on Fetus and Newborn wrote Monday that less
than 1 percent of all births in the U.S. are homebirths, but that rate has been increasing among
white women in recent years.
An in - depth look at the study you claimed to have read would have shown you that of the home birthing
women 92 % of the
women were
white 58 % had completed 4 or more years of college and 64.4 % of the these mostly married technically healthier and probably wealthier
than average
women could PAY their midwives out of pocket... these
women are not representative of national averages.
«A recent national survey of
women's experience of maternity care in the UK reported that
women from black and minority ethnic groups were more likely to recognise their pregnancy later, access care later, and consequently book later for antenatal care
than were
white women.»