woman of color

noun

plural women of color

: a woman whose skin pigmentation is other than and especially darker than what is considered characteristic of people typically defined as white (see white entry 1 sense 2a) : a woman who is of a race (see race entry 1 sense 1a) other than white or who is of mixed race

… Sen. Kamala Harris of California, will become the first woman of color to accept a major party's vice presidential nomination on Wednesday.

—Steve Peoples

In reality the 19th Amendment failed to enfranchise thousands of American women of color—Black, Asian, Latina and Native American.

—Anna Bloom

Examples of woman of color in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For instance, if the analysis reveals that your company is consistently paying women of color less than white men in a particular work group, make adjustments for the entire group based on compensable factors. —Lyssa Hansard, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024

But more than 6,500 women of color served in the WACs, including the 850 who made up the 6888th. —Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024

Though Harris outperformed Trump with women of color, Trump won white women 53% to 46% over Harris. Middleton says that the movement is moving beyond just discussing Trump. —Rebecca Schneid, TIME, 18 Dec. 2024

However, low-income women have seen increases in cervical cancer rates, and women of color have higher incidence and deaths from the cancer. —Eduardo Cuevas, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1791, in the meaning defined above