woman of color

noun

plural women of color

: a woman whose skin pigmentation is other than and especially darker than what is considered characteristic of people typically defined as white (see white entry 1 sense 2a) : a woman who is of a race (see race entry 1 sense 1a) other than white or who is of mixed race

… Sen. Kamala Harris of California, will become the first woman of color to accept a major party's vice presidential nomination on Wednesday.

—Steve Peoples

In reality the 19th Amendment failed to enfranchise thousands of American women of color—Black, Asian, Latina and Native American.

—Anna Bloom

Examples of woman of color in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In’s 2023 Women in the Workplace study shows that, despite gains in senior leadership, women remain underrepresented at all levels, especially women of color. —Karyn Twaronite, Fortune, 20 May 2024

Around the same time, a justice deputy for county Supervisor Hilda Solis filed a complaint accusing Villanueva of targeting and harassing women of color. —Keri Blakinger, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2024

The pay penalty is especially pronounced among women of color, who account for much of the child care workforce. —Alia Wong, USA TODAY, 13 May 2024

Alarmed by efforts to target LARCs at low-income populations, a group of women’s health organizations led by Sister Song, a nonprofit dedicated to reproductive justice for women of color, put out a statement of principles about LARCs in 2016. —Alana Semuels, TIME, 13 May 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1791, in the meaning defined above