12/27/2025
Black women are highly educated.
That part is true.
What often gets misrepresented is how education data gets interpreted. When people say “Black women are the most educated,” they’re usually referencing within-group data, not comparisons across all race and gender groups.
It’s so important to understand how statistics work, because misunderstanding them can distract us from the real issues: wage gaps, burnout, being underpaid, and being overlooked.
And just to be clear, this isn’t about effort. Black women are doing a lot. Studying, working, caregiving, organizing, and carrying families and institutions at the same time.
What shapes these outcomes are systems: unequal school funding, wage gaps, student debt, caregiving expectations, and workplaces that reward overwork without protection.
If we actually want to change these outcomes, we have to talk about systemic solutions like fair pay and pay transparency. We need to pursue affordable and debt-free education in whatever form and not simply lionizing the Ivy’s. We need paid family and medical leave because workplaces are consistent punishing caregiving. Because more people are focusing on individual hustle when we NEED to address institutional accountability.
