Black Female Earning And Income Volatility Summary

I found our recent readings to be extremely interesting and I became increasingly more passionate about the black female perspective in socioeconomic world. Throughout my research it became obvious to me that black females have the hardest time in the economic world than any other race. They are faced with many challenges due to the fact that their skin color is black. Their skin color can often times keep them from getting jobs they are more than qualified for and often mistreated or overlooked by society as individuals who contribute to our socioeconomic world.

My first article Black Female Earnings and Income Volatility by Bradley L. Hardy took the income volatility from four decades to show how black females have either risen or fallen in the labor market. “Income volatility focuses on the instability of labor market earnings, non-labor income, and government transfers” (Hardy 2). What is interesting to me is that

“While it is important to focus on the economic status of African American women, from Black community perspective it is also critical to consider it in the context of African American family formation and the economic status of African American men. Low wages, limited college participation, and higher unemployment rates affect the economic status of African American women, as well as African American families, and in many families shifts the burden of support from one that is shared to one that falls fully on the shoulders of women. Thus, African American women experience a third burden beyond race and gender, in that the economic status of African American men directly affects the status and options of African American women” (Malveaux 4). Even when the black male faces hardships the African American female bares the hardships more than the male in their