How to Use woman of color in a Sentence

woman of color

noun phrase
  • As a woman of color, this hurt to hear.
    — Meehika Barua, Time, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Young women of color have disappeared and not made news headlines at all.
    — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 21 Feb. 2026
  • Bolton is the first woman of color and he first woman in nearly 90 years to lead the school.
    — Shardaa Gray, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Miller is the first immigrant and woman of color to serve as the state's lieutenant governor.
    — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Like having all heads of departments be women of color and these are women that inspire me every day.
    — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2026
  • The data reveals that women of color often bear a heavier burden.
    — Charlottefive Staff, Charlotte Observer, 11 Nov. 2025
  • Especially as a young woman of color.
    — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2025
  • But Arkapaw made history as the first woman and the first woman of color to win the top lensing award.
    — William Earl, Variety, 16 Mar. 2026
  • That includes strong women, especially women of color, and anyone else who doesn’t bow to him.
    — Bea L. Hines, Miami Herald, 13 Feb. 2026
  • Berry hopes to support women of color in STEM through public events.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Nov. 2025
  • For many women of color, the slick-back bun was, and is, a perfect intersection of elegance and endurance.
    — Elizabeth Gulino, Allure, 28 Apr. 2026
  • With her directing win, Zhao became the first woman of color to win in the category.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Lowery was frustrated by how women—especially women of color—had to fight for space that should have been theirs by default.
    — Mecca Pryor, Essence, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Leila has also used her platform to fight for equality and share her personal experiences as a woman of color.
    — Maggie Kreienberg, PEOPLE, 13 May 2026
  • The former late-night host broke barriers as the first woman of color to anchor a program in that format for a major broadcast network.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 8 Oct. 2025
  • For his part, Johnson argued the city’s subminimum wage workforce was largely made up of women of color.
    — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Women today make up over half of the workforce but hold only about one in four C-suite roles, and that number drops even further for women of color.
    — Kendra Davenport, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • The statement also says that after the layoffs, there is only one woman of color on the editorial staff.
    — Elizabeth Blair, NPR, 4 Nov. 2025
  • Women’s pain is consistently more likely to be undertreated than men’s, a gap that widens further for women of color.
    — Allison Palmer, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026
  • Women’s pain is consistently more likely to be undertreated than men’s — a gap that widens further for women of color.
    — Allison Palmer, Kansas City Star, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Parents say having positive women of color as role models is crucial for building self-confidence in girls of color.
    — Kamren Curiel, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2026
  • As of today, only one woman of color remains on the editorial staff at Teen Vogue.
    — Katie Kilkenny, HollywoodReporter, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Michelle Wu, a mayor of a major city, and a woman of color, would be a much stronger candidate against Markey than Moulton.
    — Joe Battenfeld, Boston Herald, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Tyson became the first woman of color to win an honorary Academy Award in 2018.
    — Andrea Mandell, USA Today, 9 Mar. 2026
  • Not to mistake correlation for causation, but the category also happens to be the one that has seen the most women of color win.
    — Marcus Jones, IndieWire, 12 Feb. 2026
  • The Hers survey found that women of color were also more likely to report that leaving a healthcare visit left them more confused than white women.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Flow Space, 21 Jan. 2026
  • That falls to just 48% of companies when considering women of color’s advancement at work.
    — Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 9 Dec. 2025
  • Women, particularly women of color, have always been central to that work, even when the spotlight failed to acknowledge them.
    — Celina Stewart, Time, 8 Mar. 2026
  • For women of color and those with disabilities, these gaps are often magnified, leading to even greater health disparities.
    — Michelle Kaufman, Baltimore Sun, 9 Feb. 2026
  • His lieutenant governor, Aruna Miller, is the first immigrant and woman of color to serve in that role in Maryland.
    — Adam Thompson, CBS News, 11 June 2026

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