The fashion, retail and beauty industries offer a cross-section of that inequality, experts said, where entrenched power dynamics are reflected in the continuing lack of diversity in leadership roles and ownership in brands, as well as in the precariousness of employment and wages for sales and manufacturing workers. In 2015, an NAACP report on the retail industry found that poverty was significantly more prevalent among its Black and Latino workers than white counterparts, and that those former workers were also less likely to have management or supervisory roles. Among those on the frontlines of such efforts is the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which represents some 100,000 workers across the country’s supply chain in food processing, shipping and fashion retail.