In the United States, economic inequality is both racialized and gendered, with Black and Latina women consistently at the bottom of the economic hierarchy. Relative to men (across racial groups) and White women, Black and Latina women often have less-desirable jobs, lower earnings, and higher poverty rates. In this essay, we draw attention to the role of the state in structuring such inequality. Specifically, we examine how public policy is related to racial inequities in economic positions among women. Applying an intersectional lens to the contemporary landscape of economic inequality, we probe the associations between public policies and economic outcomes. We find that policies have unequal consequences across subgroups of women, providing prima facie evidence that state-level decisions about how and where to invest resources have differential implications based on women's race and ethnicity. We encourage scholars to use aspects of our approach as springboards for better specifying and identifying the processes that account for heterogeneous policy effects across racial subgroups of women.

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它有什么政策？美国的种族，性别与经济不平等

在美国，经济不平等既有种族差异也有性别差异，黑人和拉丁裔妇女始终处于经济体系的最底层。相对于男性（跨种族群体）和白人女性，黑人和拉丁裔女性的工作通常不那么理想，收入较低，贫困率更高。在本文中，我们提请注意国家在构造这种不平等中的作用。具体而言，我们研究了公共政策与女性经济地位中的种族不平等之间的关系。将交叉镜头应用于当代经济不平等状况，我们探讨了公共政策与经济结果之间的关联。我们发现，政策对女性群体的影响不平等，提供初步证据，表明国家一级关于如何以及在何处投资资源的决定根据妇女的种族和种族而产生不同的影响。我们鼓励学者使用我们方法的各个方面作为跳板，以便更好地指定和确定导致女性种族群体间政策异质性的过程。