Breast cancer self-examination, which can detect lumps and breast changes, is obviously something everyone can do. But Hispanic/Latina women do not frequently seek medical attention for breast lumps. There are several explanations for this, including a lack of health insurance, limited access to health care, and unfamiliarity with the health care system in the United States. Unfortunately, the low rate often means that Hispanic/Latina women and their healthcare providers are less likely to worry about the disease. Jean Campbell, MS, is a breast cancer survivor and advocate, and the founding director of the American Cancer Society Patient Navigator Program.

These women come into the United States looking for improved employment or educational opportunities, making them much more vulnerable to coercion and false job opportunities offered by traffickers. Additionally, many immigrant women do not understand their rights, or are faced with threats of deportation. Much of this trafficking is hard to detect, as it is not usually visible to the public or governmental eye. Currently, there are limited resources for Latina immigrants in the United States.

Mrs. Trinidad Cabeza de Baca, whose family owned one of the first autos in the city, lent hers to the cause. She was joined by a number of other Hispanic women, including Dolores “Lola” Armijo, Mrs. James Chavez, Aurora Lucero, Anita (Mrs. Secundino) http://enji-bus.jp/?p=49954 Romero, Arabella (Mrs. Cleofas) Romero and her daughter, Marie. The results of our first robustness check in which we estimated a transfer function with all the cohorts and variables produced essentially the same results as our primary test.

The 2016 presidential election may have been associated with adverse health outcomes of Latina women and their newborns. My wife sometimes listens to Spanish language news where she tells me the negative news dominates even more than on English language news broadcasts. Estimates are shown for the 9 birth cohorts in gestation during the presidential election of November 2016. Expected values were generated from a time series model using data from 94 months of the Obama presidency . Error bars indicate 95% CIs calculated as the estimate plus or minus the product of 1.96 and the estimate’s SE.

Monica Gil of Telemundo speaks to Know Your Value founder Mika Brzezinski about what it will take to close the wage gap for Latinas. New Mexico’s Hispanic women’s advocacy of suffrage and their work with the National Woman’s Party reminds us that Spanish was also a language of suffrage. Armed with economic security and the political clout of long-established Spanish-speaking families, New Mexico’s Hispanic women represented a formidable political force. Without New Mexico as one of the thirty-six states that ratified the Amendment, it may well not have passed. And the state’s vote to ratify would not have happened without the support of the Hispanic community or the advocacy work of Hispanic suffragists.

Latinas with gestational diabetes may be at risk for conditions such as high blood pressure after pregnancy. Additionally, women with gestational diabetes will need to be tested for Type 2 diabetes 4 to 12 weeks after a baby is born. If you don’t test positive for Type 2 diabetes at that follow-up visit, make sure to get tested as part of your yearly physical. Women with any type of diabetes will need extra care during pregnancy to make sure both mom and baby are healthy.

Gil is involved in Telemundo’s Unstoppable Women campaign (“Mujeres Imparables”), a company-wide initiative to celebrate and promote the advancement of Latina women in the workplace. With public service announcements, a speaker series, and panel discussions, the initiative is aiming to bring awareness to the pay gap and promote parity at work. Telemundo is also partnering with the University of Miami School of Business to present an executive leadership training program.

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Maternal race/ethnicity was classified in accordance with the 1997 Office of Management and Budget standards.28 Covariates included monthly counts of male and female preterm births to non-Latina women as well as term births to Latina women. We defined gestational age based on the date of the last menstrual period to ensure consistency across time. As described below, we used 94 months of the presidency of Barack Obama to estimate counterfactual values of preterm births to Latina women during the 9 months beginning November 1, 2016, and ending July 31, 2017. The 2016 US presidential election appears to have been associated with an increase in preterm births among US Latina women.

Insight into these relationships could allow the model to be translated to other cultures. “This study would not have been possible without the commitment of our community partners and the dedication of Angelica Deaton, our promotora,” said Spalluto. “I have actually heard people discuss Hispanic people as being lazy,” said a Latina in anatomy, in a stereotype that came up again and again in our interviews. And Asian-American women reported that people frequently assumed they were foreigners. Said a physicist, “I’ve had a number of conversations where people ask me where am I from.

Thus, future HIV prevention trials would benefit from inclusion of a time-equivalent comparison condition that focuses on a topic other than HIV prevention but addresses a relevant and important health issue for Latina women. The adaptation process remained faithful to the underlying theories and core elements of the original SiSTA intervention.

The U.S. needs immigration to supplement its labor pool if policy makers desire higher economic potential over time. While the immigrant share of the U.S. population is just below historic highs set more than a century ago, some estimates of unauthorized immigration are declining. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell told lawmakers last month that immigration is a “key input” to higher rates of growth. The number of Hispanic women with college degrees has doubled in the past 10 years to 4.8 million, increasing their ability to engage with the workforce. Enrollment data shows a significant portion of Latinas remain enrolled in school after age 21, suggesting they are pursuing graduate degrees, or juggling school with work and family support.

Latinas comprised 32.9 percent of all Latino state senators in 2010; women as a whole only represented 22 percent of state senate seats. From 2007 to 2012, the share of Latina women earning at or below minimum wage more than tripled. Latina women earn $549 per week, compared with white women’s median earnings of $718. Latina women make 88 percent of their male counterparts’ annual full-time earnings.

Likewise, immigrant Latina women are found to have a lower infant mortality rate than U.S. born women. This has been explained by the tendency for Hispanic women to continue breastfeeding for a longer amount of time. The 1970s marked the first decade in which a gender shift occurred in Mexican migration. During this time, more single women and more families began to migrate along with the working males who had already been migrating for several decades.

But, even in professions with more Latina workers, they still are paid less on average than their white male colleagues.Figure Bshows the average wages of Hispanic women and white non-Hispanic men in the 10 most common occupations for Latinas. In every one of them, white men, on average, are paid more than their Latina counterparts. This gap narrows—but not dramatically—when we control for education, years of experience, and location by regression-adjusting the differences between workers. Using this method, we find that, on average, Latina workers are paid only 66 cents on the dollar relative to white non-Hispanic men. Situations like these are widespread, especially among households in which Black and Latina women live, according to Household Pulse Survey data.

From 1980 to 2004, the number of Latina medical school graduates per year jumped from 93 to 485. Only 3 percent of Latina women are represented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, fields, while women in total make up 24 percent of the STEM workforce. College graduation rates for Latinas have increased faster than any other group of women. Latina women experience unintended pregnancy at twice the rate experienced by white women. This fact sheet provides a snapshot of statistics about health, education, entrepreneurship, economic security, and political leadership that should guide our choices to enact sensible policies to unleash the potential of this growing demographic and benefit our economy.

This difference in gender migration is largely attributed to the difference in Latino and Latina work opportunities in the United States. Prior to the 1970s, the majority of the Latino migratory work was agriculturally based. However, with the end of the Bracero program, the United States policy on migration within the hemisphere shifted from encouraging primarily working males to migrate. Beginning with the Watershed amendment of 1965, the United States shifted their policy to encourage the migration of whole families by issuing less visas to unskilled single men and more visas to families.