Two-thirds of Black women change their hair for job interviews, even as CROWN Act support grows

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• Sixty-six % of Black ladies alter their hair for a job interview, 41% of whom straighten their hair, based on the CROWN 2023 Office Analysis Research co-commissioned by Dove and LinkedIn launched Feb. 16. 
• Twenty-five % of Black ladies say they haven’t gotten a job interview due to their hair, the research discovered. And Black ladies with coily or textured hair had been twice as more likely to face microaggressions at work than their counterparts with straight hair.
• “For a lot too lengthy, Black ladies and men have been topic to unfair remedy, outright discrimination and a myriad of inequities for merely carrying our pure hair texture and hair types which are inherent to our cultural id. This contains being denied employment, being despatched dwelling from work, being neglected for promotions and a variety of microaggressions,” Esi Eggleston Bracey, president and CEO of Unilever Private Care in North America, the guardian firm of Dove, stated in a information launch. Dove in 2019 co-founded the CROWN Coalition, which now contains greater than 100 organizations, to assist anti-hair-discrimination legal guidelines.

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Throughout the U.S., at the very least 20 states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and different municipalities have handed legal guidelines prohibiting hair-based discrimination. And there was an unsuccessful push for a federal Making a Respectful and Open World for Pure Hair (CROWN) Act. The act handed in March 2022 within the U.S. Home of Representatives however not within the U.S. Senate. 

Minnesota is the most recent state to go CROWN Act laws, signing it into legislation Feb. 1. The legislation “explicitly prohibit[s] racial discrimination based mostly on pure hair texture and hair types akin to braids, locs and twists.”

“Discrimination has no place in Minnesota,” Gov. Tim Walz stated in a information launch. “By signing the CROWN Act, we’re sending a message that Black Minnesotans should reside and work free from discrimination. Immediately we’re taking an vital step in making a extra equitable Minnesota.”

California was the primary state to approve a CROWN Act, passing laws in July 2019.