The Backbone Brief and Workplace Protection Kit
What This Brief Examines
The Backbone Brief is an annual workforce assessment documenting how pay, workload, job security, and advancement systems shape outcomes for Black women across the U.S. labor market.
Drawing on national labor data, workforce research, and structural analysis, the brief identifies patterns that consistently appear first among Black women and later signal broader organizational risk. Rather than centering individual experiences, it examines how evaluation, promotion, compensation, and restructuring systems produce unequal outcomes over time.
Updated annually, The Backbone Brief serves as both a reference for Black women navigating work and a diagnostic tool for organizations seeking clearer insight into equity, retention, and leadership pipeline gaps.
Practical protection for navigating workplace risk.
The Black Women’s Workplace Protection Kit
Built from the findings of The Backbone Brief, this 20 page research backed kit offers clear, deployable tools for Black women navigating workplace instability across industries. It focuses on boundaries, documentation, decision making, and next steps when warning signs appear. Priced at 50 dollars as a one time PDF download, it is designed for immediate use.