And yet, in the 40 years since that ruling, not much has changed. At times Mitchell has even felt that . Take the stats from a recent , for example: Black women are 80% more likely to change their natural hair to meet expectations at work.
Additionally, Black women are 1.5 times more likely to have reported being sent home or know of a Black woman sent home from the workplace because of her hair.Mitchell decided to change that with the introduction of the .
While anti-discrimination laws now protect the choice to wear natural hairstyles like an Afro, the bill extends that protection. “[It acknowledges that] as a Black woman, my hair grows in a particular way compared to other races of people, and that the style that I wear, because of the.