By Lihle Z. Mtshali

A new report, entitled The Status of Black Women in America, confirms what your mama has been telling you all these years: as a Black woman you will have to be twice as good to get half of what they have.

The report, which was conducted by the nonprofit Institute for Women’s Policy Research and funded by the National Domestic Workers Alliance, found that “more than sixty percent of Black women are in the workforce, making them one of the two racial/ethnic groups of women with the highest labor force participation rate, but their earnings lag behind most women’s and men’s earnings in the U.S.”

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