Analysts often point out that black women “entered the labor market” earlier than white women, but what this means concretely is that, for generations, black women and girls were forced into slavery and worked to death performing unpaid labor in concentration camps, more commonly referred to as “plantations.” Even today, black women still work outside the home at a higher rate than their white counterparts, but “have the lowest pay and occupational status jobs of any race/gender groups.”
