Huffington post:Black women getting nowhere in the cooperate world

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https://www.google.com/amp/m.huffpo...2d29b0e8/amp?client=ms-android-hms-tmobile-us



Black women want a seat at the table. And yet they are close to invisible at the highest ranks of corporate America, reveals data released Tuesday morning by consulting firm McKinsey & Company and LeanIn.org, the nonprofit women’s leadership organization founded by Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg.

This is the second year the organization has released the data, among the most comprehensive looks at how women are faring in the business world.

Overall, it’s not going terribly well. Women drop out of the corporate pipeline at high rates: For every 100 women promoted to manager (the first step on the track up the ladder), 130 men are advanced, the study found. Women get more pushback when they negotiate for raises, and are more likely to get labeled pushy or bossy by the higher-ups and generally receive less support from senior colleagues.

But women of color have it particularly bad, the study found.

Defined as black, Asian or Hispanic, women of color make up just 3 percent of executives in the C-suite at the 132 North American companies surveyed, which include JP Morgan Chase, Procter & Gamble, General Motors and Facebook. Yet, these women comprise 20 percent of the United States population.

White women were also nowhere near parity in those high-level offices, but at 17 percent are doing much better by comparison.

“When women are stuck, corporate America is stuck,” Sandberg said in a statement. “We know that diverse teams perform better and inclusive workplaces are better for all employees, so we all have strong incentives to get this right.”


In Wingfield’s study, black women tell painful stories of how this plays at the office. One woman, after asking her boss about new opportunities at her firm, was told to be happy with what she’s achieved. “You’ve reached a milestone you’ve probably never imagined,” he tells her. “Do we really need to talk about what you haven’t yet achieved?”

Yvette Miley, a senior executive at MSNBC, describes her experiences in the 1990s speaking up at editorial meetings only to see her ideas get ignored until a male colleague repeated it and had the buy-in of the room.

What seems clear is that the managers and executives who make decisions about promotions and advancement may have unconsciously absorbed some of these stereotypes and are holding back women of color.

And to make things even tougher, many companies aren’t very focused on racial diversity to begin with. According to LeanIn.org’s numbers, 55 percent of companies say racial diversity is a top priority. Gender diversity gets far more attention, with 78 percent of companies saying they’ve made it a top goal.
 

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i dont even think theyre more than 10 brothers in CA

only time I see bros in CA is those job diversty ads...they always have men and black women smiling and happy...then when u get that 1 interview after 56 rejections....u see like 3 black women and a damn hunch back nikka janitor limping around smiling

alotta janitors are c00ns btw...i worked at this ratchet ass call center i got laid off from, they had this young dude that they would patronize and he would eat it up....they would pat the nikka on the back for screwing in a light bulb.....and tell him how great he was...that dude hated me, uncle ruckus would screw face me all day
 

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Of course not. Same with the men. You can't pass down a job. Cacs know this. They believe in OWNERSHIP. We believe in good jobs which is sad because at the end of the day, the Chinese immigrants who own the nail salons/chinese food spots or the Indians with the 711s are still better off than us at our "corporate/professional" jobs. Because their kids, like white kids, are getting a business or multiple businesses when they come of age, while our kids have to go to school, go in debt, and hope someone hires us :mjlol:
 
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