Throughout any point in their careers, many professional women of color would suffer sexual assault. Although many are reporting this harassment, others are quitting their jobs to escape their harasser.
Here are 6 ways that prove women of color struggle to work in America:
They are paid less for doing the same tasks than white guys
- Black and Hispanic women are most impacted by the gender wage difference when we compare it to white men. Data shows that black women make up to 67% of what white men gain, whilst Hispanic women make 58% only.
- Black women require an additional 233 days of service to earn what white men earn. Hispanic women, particularly the Latinas, need 324 days of work.
Black and Hispanic women are more likely to be employed in poorly paid jobs
- For example, black women are more likely to serve in food service, domestic work, and home health care — all of the country’s worst-paying jobs.
- Furthermore, Hispanic workers account for just 15% of all jobs, but make up 36% of all dropouts from high school — a community that usually gets low-paid work.
Black and Hispanic women are especially prone to unexpected time periods
- Their working hourly wages have the most irregular schedules. Given the consequences of precarious schedules, night shift workers and people with irregular hours are 33% more likely to experience depression and their kids are more inclined to have worse behavior and inconsistent child care.
Women of color make up an abysmal 4% of corporate C-suites
- Only 1 in 25 C-suite executive-level managers is a woman of color. White women represent 18% of C-suite managers while white men make up 68% of the large majority. Colored women are not only disproportionately outnumbered at the top — they make up 18 percent of entry-level workers, 12 percentage points lower than white females.
Women of color are more subject to sexual assault and intimidation at work, especially in the low-wage sector
- According to a 2019 study published in the journal Gender, Work and Organization, women of color are more likely to report sexual harassment and bullying in the workplace compared to white people and men of color.
- Experts speculated this phenomenon because colored women face a “double jeopardy” of being both women and ethnic minorities.
They are judged more unfairly than white employees and black men — and much more likely to be passed up for senior-level roles and greater opportunities
- Research by Harvard University showed black women are perceived as less successful leaders compared to white women and black and white men. They often get the least support from their managers. And they always believe they have been disproportionately pushed away from better opportunities.
- Asian Americans are the least likely community to be appointed to positions in tech management despite being the most likely ones to be recruited into entry-level occupations. Of all the tech-working Asian-American women, only 1 in 285 is a manager.
References: https://www.businessinsider.fr/us/how-work-is-failing-women-of-color-2019-10
