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Women of color
Women of color (singular: woman of color, sometimes abbreviated as WOC) is a phrase used to describe female people of color. The political term "women of color" surfaced in the violence against women movement. In the late seventies it unified all women experiencing multiple layers of marginalization with race or ethnicity as a common issue.
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of women of color in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of women of color in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of women of color in a Sentence
While rolling out a new policy understandably takes time, I do not believe the police department has taken the necessary actions to address the underlying cultural issues that too often negatively impact women—especially women of color.
We're in a weird political time, i didn't take [ the backlash ] personally. For me, it's important that young girls, women and women of color see that achieving something like this is possible.
We've been talking about the wage gap for years now with no action taken by The Senate on Tuesday. Women with the same jobs, the same degree, sometimes even better degrees than their male colleagues, are making less money. For women of color, the gap between them and their male colleagues is even wider.
For decades, the government has helped perpetuate the systemic discrimination that has denied women of color equal opportunities, it's time for the government to try to right those wrongs - and boost our economy in the process.
We already have problems serving our women of color through long standing discrimination, racism and access to resources, this is going to compound those already existing problems.
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- mujeres de colorSpanish
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