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27 lut 2017 · The findings indicated that women's skin tone did not have a significant effect on the level of self-esteem; however, light-skinned women felt more valued in their social relationships when compared with darker-skinned women.
We compared outcomes for women with light vs. medium skin color with prevalence differences (PDs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs), and dark-skin disadvantage with prevalence ratios (PRs) and 95% CIs for a 10-unit increase in skin color.
4 sty 2021 · While studies conflict over whether Black women prefer lighter-skinned Black men, all of the recent studies find that dark-skinned Black women are consistently passed over for marriage by middle- to high-status Black males. 31 In fact, studies show that darker-skinned Black women tend to marry spouses with a full year less education than ...
14 lut 2024 · In 2009, a study found that for women under 30, lighter-skinned Black women were married at twice the rate of their darker-skinned counterparts and 17 percent more than Black women...
31 sie 2023 · Nightingale et al. reported a Black couple's experience where one partner had a dark-complexion skin tone, and the other partner had a light-complexion skin tone, which “dictated the different ways in which they saw themselves and were treated by others” (p. 46).
Taken together, these findings suggest that light skin structures access to resources and exposures to health risks that shape broad indicators of physical well-being among black women in ways that it does not for black men.
1 sty 2012 · Light-skinned African American women are more likely to marry high-status spouses than are dark-skinned African American women (Hunter 1998; Udry et al. 1971). Aaron Gullickson ( 2005 ) found some evidence that colorism is waning in the postcivil rights era, even while institutional racism persists.
