The position of black women in the labor market and decolonial feminist thought

Abstract

This paper addresses the position of black women in the labor market through authors who make up decolonial feminist thought, as well as the theoretical strands arising from critical theories of human rights and decolonial studies, which allow the understanding and visibility of various oppressions based on sex, race, and gender. The present research seeks to understand how decolonial thinking and feminism dialogue to identify the oppressions related to sex, race, and gender in the historical evolution of women in the context of the labor relationship. Finally, there are wage distinctions, since women, with more intensity in this regard, are placed in a position of inferiority about men. Thus, the question arises: Why are black women in today’s society still discriminated against in labor relations, even with positive advances in labor legislation? The hypothesis that arises is complex in content, but it is based on the idea that oppression falls on women, compared to men, which is accentuated with black women, in the face of the intersectional discrimination they experience (for being women and for being black), in which gender and race become factors of oppression.