Discovering intersectionality

Intersectionality and Leadership

The overall body of existing leadership diversity studies has focused only on one or two diversity attributes, missing the effects of multiple intersecting attributes. This study uses intersectionality theory to examine the interactions of surface level diversity attributes to dissect leader identity. Based on qualitative narratives and a substantial literature review, this study examines pheno...

'Home Truths' on Intersectionality

In the wake of intersectionality's trans-disciplinary institutionalization, this Article considers how the meaning and practice of intersectionality has changed in different historical moments. This Article studies three periods in black feminism's long history of doing intersectional work: an early period (1968-87) marked by a broad conception of intersectionality, the watershed years (1988-90...

Intersectionality, Inequality and Maternal Health

Intersectionality and research in psychology.

Feminist and critical race theories offer the concept of intersectionality to describe analytic approaches that simultaneously consider the meaning and consequences of multiple categories of identity, difference, and disadvantage. To understand how these categories depend on one another for meaning and are jointly associated with outcomes, reconceptualization of the meaning and significance of ...

“Intersectionality” in Asian American Women’s Health

According to the U.S. Census, Asian Americans are the most quickly increasing population in the United States (U.S. Census Bureau, 2011). It is expected that Asian Americans will grow from 5.14 percent of the total U.S. population in 2012 to 7.8 percent in 2050 (U.S. Census Bureau, n.d.). Also, Asian Americans are known to be the ethnic group with the highest income and best education in the Un...