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Color Blind Women Face Unique Challenges, EnChroma Study Finds

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Monday, September 6, 2021

Today, on International Color Blindness Awareness Day, EnChroma creators of glasses for color blindness released the results of a survey detailing the numerous challenges and frustrations encountered by color blind women.

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  • Today, on International Color Blindness Awareness Day, EnChroma creators of glasses for color blindness released the results of a survey detailing the numerous challenges and frustrations encountered by color blind women.
  • Color Vision Deficiency (CVD) is relatively rare in women, with one in 200 (.5%) color blind; roughly 20 million worldwide.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210906005027/en/
    Normal Color Vision and Color Vision Deficient Views (Graphic: Business Wire)
    Key findings of the survey include that 75% of women experience skepticism in school that they are actually color blind; two-thirds were teased at school for being color blind; nearly half say they face more challenges than color blind men; and 81% believe they endured extra struggles or delays before doctors, educators or their parents suspected they might be color blind.
  • Half of color blind women report their parents were surprised to learn theyre color blind.