Research conducted with support from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).\
One of the fastest-growing group of college educated women in the United States is also among the most economically vulnerable. Black women were responsible for one fifth of the nation’s college educated female population growth between 2020 and 2024. Among women between the ages of 25 and 64 with a four-year degree or higher, Black women ranked second behind Hispanic women, who accounted for almost half the net growth (45%), and above Asian and non-Hispanic White women, who were responsible for 18% and 14% of absolute growth, respectively. And while the population of all college educated women increased by 4.7 percent, the college educated Black female population increased by 9.2 percent between 2020 and 2024 (Table 1).