Issues that young black woman face?

Question

I am writing a youth book, and i need some info and input on young african american women, and the everyday struggles.

Answer 1

While I'm the wrong person to answer this question, I have studied health statistics among different races, and black women are at a serious disadvantage.

1- Black women are 85% more likely to get diabetes.
2- Black women with breast cancer are 30% more likely to die from it than white women.
3- More black women die from heart diseases than any other race (can't remember the numbers).

Statistically, fewer black women have access to medical health coverage, which means that they don't have access to early detection and proper treatments. It should be easy to research this since it's a major problem and the statistics consistently support the claims.

Good luck!

Answer 2

I would love to help you, but I really do not understand the struggles black women face on a daily basis. I am sure you will some help for your book here, but if you haven't already done it you should ask this in the Culture section too.

Best of luck with your book. Young people need positive role models...they are something that are few and far between.

Answer 3

(Johnathan, you can't even spell your first name right, and you're writing a book about a subject you know precious little about?)

If you're writing a "youth book" -- would you ASK this question about WHITE WOMEN? ("what are the issues that White Women face?")... my point is, the issues are EXACTLY THE SAME.

Only, it's your viewpoint already that is biased. And the institution that has ASKED you this question makes a HUGE assumption, based on skin color. If you ask me, I'd tell you that Mrs. Obama and OPRAH and their young nieces -- do not face any issue that say.. a woman right now in the projects of upper Manhattan faces... And that's the same issue -- poor vs. privileged.. that ANY girl faces: white, black, asian (hello?), indian, latina or other.

So, you want to STEREOTYPE for a young black woman?

What will you wind up with..? problems dealing with "black men"? not having rooms to study in? not having TWO parents? being pregnant at 14? being a mother of 2, by 18? knowing what a G.E.D. is? not having access to myspace and facebook and AOL and IMing? not having HS counselors that know their families & older sisters.. and friends & neighbors that can easily get them SUMMER internships and side-jobs at great companies, whether they want them or not?

Good luck with perpetuating bigotry.

Answer 4

i think of that youthful black women face alot of challenging topics like: whether or not they gets dealt with with appreciate as a results of unfavourable photographs that are being provided to different races besides as our own human beings(track video clips and tv exhibits etc) and that i the different project that youthful black women face are teenage being pregnant and or having teenagers out of wedlock and we frequently be afflicted by low self self assurance as a results of fact human beings think of that we at the instant are not suited as we are and we additionally could manage the full project of looking the ultimate mate as a results of fact presently we are having a subject with our adult adult males being on the down low and down low adult adult males helping to unfold the HIV/AIDS virus that is already killing alot of our African American brothers and sisters. there are a number of greater topics yet i already wrote to lots

Answer 5

Being stereotyped by black men and called vile names by our own entertainment and being portrayed in mainstream media as welfare moms, prostitutes, and drug addicts more than anything else are undoubtedly not very helpful to young black women's progress through life. When they do succeed, being saddled with the stigma that they were admitted, hired, promoted, because they "filled two quotas", so that the idea of her competence and not fitting the stereotypes is treated as just the spoils of affirmative action.

RoVale mentioned the fact that young black women get followed around (as do black men). They also get poorer customer service generally. And when they are crime victims, they are often not taken seriously by those in authority.

Answer 6

the issues that is see on a daily bases is that young youth black ladys dropout of school, and get pg at a early age.

Answer 7

One issue they face is being followed around in stores even though statistically speaking, most shoplifters are white women.