How to Use woman of color in a Sentence

woman of color

noun
  • And the memo is what women of color need to know to secure the seat.
    Jasmine Browley, Essence, 5 Jan. 2024
  • And here is a woman of color who is at the absolute top of her game.
    Emlyn Travis, EW.com, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Bond is one of the most senior women of color in gaming.
    Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 6 Nov. 2023
  • But nearly all the work dates to the second half of the 20th century, and much of it is by women of color.
    Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 2 July 2024
  • There’s a lot of work to be done in tech policy, and a big need for women of color and Gen Z to speak out about it.
    Ruhama Wolle, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2024
  • Myart-Cruz was the first woman of color to head the union and has 26 years of teaching experience.
    Howard Blumestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The post office would also be the first one to recognize a woman of color.
    Shirley Leung, BostonGlobe.com, 25 May 2023
  • The brand has been on a mission to double the number of women and triple the number of women of color in STEM careers by 2030.
    Jessica Cruel, Allure, 22 Aug. 2023
  • For women of color, like me, having kids of our own can be the turning point that finally drives us to swim lessons.
    Purnima Mani, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2023
  • Earle-Sears became the second woman and the first woman of color to hold a statewide office.
    Elaine Mallon, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 5 Sep. 2024
  • In report found that only one in four people in the C-suite is a woman and only one in 20 is a woman of color.
    L'oreal Thompson Payton, Fortune Well, 13 Apr. 2023
  • All seven women are under 40 years old, and six out of the seven are women of color.
    Apress, Hartford Courant, 14 Jan. 2024
  • The seven women that will be sworn in next month as council members are all under the age of 40, and six are women of color.
    Adrienne Broaddus, NBC News, 8 Dec. 2023
  • Yeoh became the first Asian woman to win the best actress Oscar and only the second woman of color to take home that award.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 13 Mar. 2023
  • Yeoh could become the second woman of color, and first Asian person, to win lead actress.
    Clayton Davis, Variety, 8 Mar. 2023
  • The percentage of women of color in leading roles has remained flat for years.
    Time, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Yet the trip was more than just business for the first woman and first woman of color to hold the office of the American vice president.
    Kent Nishimura, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • Nearly half, or six, of the women producers in 2023 were women of color.
    Katie Bain, Billboard, 30 Jan. 2024
  • In Lynch’s tale, these missing women make the news in a way that, Ada notes, Indigenous women and women of color do not.
    Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 20 June 2023
  • While the apps may have algorithms that do not favor women of color, Black women should not give up hope.
    Essence, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The gap for women of color was five times wider than the disparity for white women, the analysis found.
    Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Yeoh was the first Asian woman to win in the Best Actress category, and only the second woman of color to ever take home the award.
    Town & Country, 12 Mar. 2023
  • The appointment of a woman of color as President, and from within at that, marks a real change.
    Rahul Raj, Rolling Stone, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Enter Black Girl Sunscreen, made by a woman of color to address this very issue.
    Bella Cacciatore, Glamour, 3 May 2024
  • The headline was that the British government had blocked a woman of color from being appointed to Channel 4’s board for a third time.
    Byrozina Breen, Fortune Europe, 1 Feb. 2024
  • One fatal standoff is between two women of color who appear to be roughly the same age.
    Amy Nicholson, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The decision means that Harris, who is of Black and South Asian descent, could be the first woman of color to lead a major-party ticket.
    Anna Gordon, TIME, 22 July 2024
  • Women still earn less than men, making on average about 84% of what men make when working full-time, year-round–and the gap is even wider for women of color.
    Rebecca Feinglos, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Even the idea of using a pick to balance a ticket — like pairing the first major party nominee who is a woman of color with a white male in the case of Harris selecting Walz — may also be overstated.
    Will Weissert, Chicago Tribune, 29 Sep. 2024
  • Harris, who is of Black and Indian descent, is the first woman of color to secure a major-party nomination for president.
    Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy, USA TODAY, 4 Oct. 2024

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