From Paper

"In 2001, scientists McCoy Holcomb and Thomas Moore found that black teenage girls who deviate furthest from the established European attractiveness standard were more likely to be ostracized by their peers in social situations at school. This isolation and loneliness resulted in lower levels of academic achievement and higher high school dropout rates than any other group."

From Paper

"While many hairstyles like dreads, afros, twists, and free curly hair is celebrated within the black community as a physical expression of black empowerment, it is not so in the workplace. These differences make it even harder for black women to navigate an already male dominated environment, as they must find a balance between their cultural femininity and professionalism, two things that are often seen as a contradiction. This “attractiveness bias” means that darker skinned women are more likely to be under-educated and underemployed, because of racialized beauty standards."