2023
“‘Oh gosh, why go?’ cause they are going to look at me and not hire”: intersectional experiences of black women navigating employment during pregnancy and parenting
Mehra R, Alspaugh A, Dunn J, Franck L, McLemore M, Keene D, Kershaw T, Ickovics J. “‘Oh gosh, why go?’ cause they are going to look at me and not hire”: intersectional experiences of black women navigating employment during pregnancy and parenting. BMC Pregnancy And Childbirth 2023, 23: 17. PMID: 36627577, PMCID: PMC9830615, DOI: 10.1186/s12884-022-05268-9.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFamily-friendly workplace policiesIntersectional frameworkPregnancy discriminationLived experienceWorkplace policiesUnited StatesSemi-structured interviewsEconomic marginalizationIntersectional experiencesWomen's experiencesWomen's perspectivesRacial inequitiesSocial identityLabor forceEmployment contextSecure futureQualitative dataHealth equityInterview transcriptsI WannaBlack womenLegal protectionPolicyPregnant women's experiencesEmployment
2018
Intersectional experiences of discrimination in a low‐resource urban community: An exploratory latent class analysis
Earnshaw V, Rosenthal L, Gilstad‐Hayden K, Carroll‐Scott A, Kershaw T, Santilli A, Ickovics J. Intersectional experiences of discrimination in a low‐resource urban community: An exploratory latent class analysis. Journal Of Community & Applied Social Psychology 2018, 28: 80-93. DOI: 10.1002/casp.2342.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchHealth inequitiesIntersectional experiencesTheoretical debatesWorse overall healthLatent class analysisCommunity Health SurveyLow-resource urban communitiesUrban community settingsSleep disruptionHealth SurveyClass analysisHealth outcomesOverall healthMultilevel interventionsExploratory latent class analysisIntersectionality frameworkCommunity settingsCommunity membersFrequent discriminationUrban communitiesHigh rateInequitiesDiscrimination experiencesDiverse communitiesClasses of participants