Pregnancy Inequality
This section focuses on a freelance project I did discussing the problems of pregnancy inequality. This came at a request from a client who wanted me to design pieces to explain how and why pregnant women of color usually do not receive the type of quality care from healthcare workers that white women do. For this project, I wanted to make each design relate closely to each other.
The first design uses typography to make two images of two pregnant women. The woman in white represents the white women, while the one in black represents women of color. Both images consist of large, bold adjectives designed in a word puzzle format that describes the experience each class of women usually has in a professional healthcare environment.
The second design takes inspiration from pop-ups usually seen in comic books. The words chosen for this piece relate to and play off the typography aspect of the first design. The halftone background showcases white vs women of color, and the words on each side reflect how each tends to be treated by many healthcare professionals.
The final design is a picture of a pregnant woman with a pie chart in her stomach where the baby is born. It takes inspiration from the first design, except this one focuses less on typography and more on data collection. The pie chart explains the rate of pregnancy-related deaths that occurred in hospitals between races of women. As the chart shows, more women of color suffer deaths from pregnancy than white women do. This provides more insight into what type of women the employees value more. These were all completed in April 2021.