• Excerpts from Women of Color in NYC: Two-Thirds of all Women, Still Invisible in Policy
  • As of 2000, women of color are the majority of women in NYC, roughly two-thirds
  • Infant mortality rates for blacks and Puerto Ricans in New York City exceed national averages
  • Black and Puerto Rican women account for 80% of deaths to HIV disease
    Black women have the highest arrest and incarceration rates among women in the city, exceeding white males
  • Only 20% of black, 14% of Native American and 8% of Hispanic women have completed a Bachelor's degree or above
  • Black women are 21% of the Mayoral workforce but only 4% of top administrators
  • 31% of Asian women had a Bachelors degree or above, but an almost an equal
    proportion failed to complete High School
  • 81% of women in poverty are women of color
To obtain specific group data or any data related information,
please contact Diana Salas at 212-998-7511 or diana.salas@nyu.edu