Throughout the past three years, women around the world disproportionately suffered due to economic shutdowns. Their earnings, in many cases, have stalled or fallen relative to men’s, and in many pockets of the labour market, women still struggle to climb to critical leadership positions. More women than men are leaving their jobs, unable to navigate corporate structures while balancing commitments outside of paid work.

But buried in the narrative of women’s recent struggles overall is another critical and often even more troubling storyline: the experiences of women of colour.

Although much gender-based data and research is reported in binary terms – men versus women – women’s lived experiences are formed at the intersection of gender and race, or ethnicity. Simply, looking at women as a monolith can lose nuance: the struggles of a white woman in the workforce may not necessarily be comparable – or even at all similar – to those of a black working woman; and, in turn, a black working woman may tend to face entirely different barriers to those experienced by women of Middle Eastern, Hispanic or Asian descent. เดิมพันยูฟ่า