Presidential candidate Kamala Harris is infused with enough #BlackGirlMagic to help her kill it in the Oval Office and be a successful world leader. Here are just seven reasons, based on accomplishments throughout her career and all sorts of research on how Black women excel at…well, almost everything.
Black women value education
Harris is a graduate of Howard University and the University of California Hastings College of Law. The college enrollment rate for Black women (39 percent) exceeded the rate for men (34 percent), including white men (36 percent), Black men (32 percent) and Hispanic men (27 percent), based on 2022 data from the National Center for Education Statistics.
Black women have the drive to excel
We’re “even more ambitious than white women,” based on the “Women in the Workplace” report from LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Co.
Black women are reliable and get the job done
That’s because we have a “strong drive to contribute and succeed,” according to Catalyst, a global nonprofit that focuses on women in the workplace.
Black women have always had a strong work ethic
“Historically, African Americans — especially women — have propped up the labor market, despite discrimination and hostility,” Asha Banerjee and Cameron Johnson write in “African American Workers Built America” for the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP). “As far back as 1870, 50% of Black women were in the labor force compared to just 16.5% of white women.”
Black women think about other people
It isn’t all about us. We’re 50 percent more likely than men to be “motivated by a desire to be role models,” states the “Women in the Workplace” report.
Black women take care of business
“The rate of business ownership for Black women is growing rapidly,” the Brookings Institute reports, increasing by 18.14 percvent between 2017 and 2020 — “outpacing women-owned businesses (9.06 percent) and Black-owned businesses (13.64 percent).”
Black women leaders want to make a difference
According to “Women in the Workplace,” 37 percent of us say we’re motivated by the opportunity to have a “positive impact on the world.”
