Belonging to more than one marginalized group can make building and maintaining social connections significantly harder, often in ways that go far beyond a simple sum of disadvantages. A new study shows how inequalities in social ties don’t just add up—they can amplify one another.
Double disadvantage hurts more than twice as much when it comes to social isolation, study finds
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