Posted on 03/04/2024 11:08:11 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage?
Regina Lawless hit a professional high at 40, becoming the first director of diversity and inclusion for Instagram. But after her husband died suddenly in 2021, she pondered whether she had neglected her personal life and what it means for Black woman to succeed in the corporate world.
While she felt supported in the role, “there wasn’t the willingness for the leaders to take it all the way,” Lawless said. “Really, it’s the leaders and every employee that creates the culture of inclusion.”
This inspired her venture, Bossy and Blissful, a collective for Black female executives to commiserate and coach each other on how to deal with misogynoir, a specific type of misogyny experienced by Black women, or being the only person of color in the C-suite.
“I’m now determined to help other women, particularly women of color and Black women, to see that we don’t have to sacrifice ourselves for success. We can find spaces or create our own spaces where we can be successful and thrive,” said Lawless, who is based in Oakland, California.......
The number of Black women in the workforce is in danger of shrinking because of a lack of support and opportunities, according to advocates.
Black women comprise 7.4% of the U.S. population but they occupy only 1.4% of C-suite positions and 1.6% of senior vice-president roles, according to a 2020 report from Lean In, “The State of Black Women in Corporate America.” U.S. Census data shows Black women working year-round and full-time in 2021 made 69 cents for every dollar a white man got. Meanwhile, white women made 80 cents on the dollar.
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Are you trying to say that this woman can’t understand normal thinking?
Exactly correct.
Are they saying black women can’t make it on their own without the help of affirmative action policies?......
that’s sure what it sounds like 🤔
Yeah, diversity is under attack: No White People Allowed
(especially old white men, the creators of EVERYTHING)
“Think Fulton County”
That’s the second thing that came to my mind.....first being what I saw for 30 years working in the cimpletly woke federal government
Interestingly enough I was looking at a forum of professional black woman who were discussing DEI and most said it was worthless to them. They talked about the DEI company meetings and said they were a joke and nobody took it seriously.
So, a made-up job.
Sadly, it really hurts competent black women, of whom there are many.
Everyone loses when when unqualified and less than competent people are hired for political reasons
Show up on time. Learn the job. Don’t call in sick repeatedly.
Shower using soap. Finished your assignment? Look for other ways to help.
We sure do lose. Finding the lowest common denominator is only useful for doing math with fractions. For things like university admissions and employment, it’s societal suicide.
In the article one of the female black executives talks about going home and “talking about” the “problems” she encountered in the workplace daily. She obviously attributes these problems to racism.
At one point in my career I was the middle aged, white, Christian boss in a company that was decided not. We had many Hispanics and nearly everyone was under the age of 30. I had full access to the interoffice messaging and emails. This was told to the company regularly and that such communication was monitored. It was still shocking to read what was said about me - I was racist, judgemental, sexist, you name it. One female employee told another I regularly hit on her when I barely knew who she was and would never do such a thing. Our one black employee at the time shared the opinion that she thought I was a member of the KKK.
This vitriol stemmed from me enforcing the company rules like requests for paid time off needed to be made 30 days in advance and no clocking in for someone other than yourself. I occasionally had to be the bad guy and write someone up - so I was EVIL!
All that to say it never occured to me to complain that these people were racist, or sexist, or agist - even though, evidently, they were. They were just disgruntled employees and pissing them off was sometimes part of the job.
Now how much of this black women’s issues are really “just part of the job?” When you see all issues as stemming from racism, are all of your problems at work stemming from racism, even if they’re not? Even if they are, are you so thinned skin that you then have to go home and b!tch about it?
Yep, jobs like this come and go as they are totally unnecessary.
I’ve seen far too many black women given positions they are not qualified for. Our kid was a victim of such a hiring.
Of course they are.
I was discriminated against, as a white male, when the Lying Kenyan came to power.
By age and also by those two demographics. A hat trick of discrimination.
It was life-changing and not in a good way.
I do not take seriously any article that uppercases black while lowercasing White.
DEI and Affirmative Action programs seem to attract and empower the less than competent, highly aggrieved freeloader demographic in a society - irrespective of the color of your skin .
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