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How has racism held back economic democracy?

This month on, Looks Like New, MEDlab director Nathan Schneider hosted a group conversation of 100+ guests to understand these questions featuring authors Jason Spicer and Jessica Gordon Nembhard.

#MEDlab #StructuralRacism #Economy

Available at 10:00 AM (MT) Dec 26 on lookslikenew.net/feed/podcast/

Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/

Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/5Y8jLIjt

Indicators of structural sexism and racism are associated with greater memory decline in older women in the United States.

A new study from Columbia University researchers: ‘Sexism Is a Risk Factor for Memory Decline Among Women’

From the Columbia University posting:

“The difference between being born in the most versus the least sexist state was equivalent to nine years of cognitive aging.

The study is part of a growing body of research that has investigated links between structural sexism and health. Structural sexism, like structural racism, does not refer to personal incidences but to inequality in resources and power that stem from social policies and societal norms. Hate crimes or slurs are individual acts of racism or sexism, whereas unfair lending practices and underrepresentation in government are structural.”

cuimc.columbia.edu/news/sexism

Columbia University Irving Medical Center · Sexism Is a Risk Factor for Memory Decline Among WomenColumbia researchers have found that women born in the most sexist U.S. states experience faster memory decline in later life compared to women born in the least sexist states.

Evidence of in the :

'Research, published by the Trades Union Congress... showed the proportion of BME workers in low-paid & insecure work increased from 12.2% to 17.8% in the last decade. In comparison, the proportion of white workers in insecure work only rose marginally from 10.5% to 10.8%.

During this time period BME workers accounted for two-thirds of the growth of insecure workers – despite making up 14% of the overall UK workforce'!

theguardian.com/society/2023/a

The GuardianData on insecure work in UK shows ‘structural racism in action’, TUC saysBy Joe Middleton