How to Use woman of color in a Sentence

woman of color

noun
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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • In recent decades, women of color have set out to forge a path for artists who look like them in the country genre, a genre with strong roots in Black musical traditions.
    — Emi Tuyetnhi Tran, NBC News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Pageants for women of color thrived in parallel to whites-only events, and still do, even though women of color have begun to fill the ranks of famous pageants.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 25 Oct. 2023
  • The difference is that this time, the focus is on women, and in particular women of color.
    — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 22 July 2023
  • The group does cycling for health and wellness, and to build a supportive community for women of color.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Aug. 2023
  • But when speaking to women of color like myself, my experience has felt not like the exception, but the norm.
    — Purnima Mani, Good Housekeeping, 22 July 2023
  • The killings of transgender women of color often go unresolved in the city, the Tribune reported in June.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 7 Apr. 2023
  • That’s even more important as the suit could lead some to worry that investing in funds that mainly back women or women of color might come with risk.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2023
  • In low-income communities, where many women of color set up child-care centers, they are paid less.
    — Jenny Gold, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2024

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