Social Work Literature and Gendered Racism: A Scoping Review.

This article presents a scoping review of peer-reviewed social work literature on gendered racism, defined as the intersectional experience of sexism and racism, primarily affecting women of color. Analyzing 33 articles published mostly since 2021, the review finds that social work scholarship on gendered racism is limited but growing, with most studies focusing on Black and Asian American cisgender women and emphasizing aspects such as gendered racial socialization, stereotypes, microaggressions, and structural racism. While intersectionality is widely used as a theoretical framework, there is a notable underrepresentation of Indigenous, Latine, transgender, and nonbinary populations, and a lack of policy implications in the literature. The authors highlight the need for social work journals to provide platforms for research on gendered racism and call for expanded focus on diverse populations and policy-oriented scholarship to address structural inequities.