White women entered the work force later but advanced faster than black women

Evidence

Throughout woman’s history as a paid laborer, white women workers have been able to enter the work force much later than black women yet advance at a much more rapid pace. Even though all women were denied access to many jobs because of sexist discrimination, racism ensured that the lot of the white women would always be better than that of the black female worker. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 432

Categorization

• XREF: Interlocking race and sex oppression in the labor market echoes connections with Black Marxism themes. — connects to: Employers paid black women less than white women for identical work. — bell hooks, Ain’t I a Woman_ Black Women and…, 397; Career women face obstacles comparable to those confronting racialized newcomers — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 1936

Related

• Employers paid black women less than white women for identical work. (similarity 0.85)
• Black women’s employment is framed as harming black men, unlike white women’s (similarity 0.83)
• Career women face obstacles comparable to those confronting racialized newcomers (similarity 0.80)
• White middle-class women are less oppressed than poor or black women (similarity 0.80)
• White-scholarship findings about women workers were misapplied to Black women (similarity 0.79)
• White women already knew of their own sexist oppression before abolition work. (similarity 0.79)
• The 60s women’s movement structurally repeated the earlier movement’s racism. (similarity 0.79)
• Black women experienced sexist oppression distinct from racism (similarity 0.79)
• Workplace wage discrimination against black women took three distinct structural forms. (similarity 0.79)
• Black women’s workforce participation did not produce feminist consciousness (similarity 0.78)
• Capitalist economic change, not feminism, drove women into the workforce (similarity 0.78)