AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESSWOMEN FACE DOUBLE JEOPARDY
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» bridget1 - Mentoring
This is a very interesting topic to me (as a female who has more than once tried to infiltrate previously all-male workplaces.) I always wonder, looking at "senior management" statistics, how many founders of Fortune 1000 or 500 companies were female? How many were non-white? And how many senior managers had mentors who were close or immediate family members? This idea that companies discriminate is often an "entitlement" argument in reverse. I think workplace culture still has much unexplored territory. I made some attempts at questioning assumptions in my review of The Frailty Myth at http://www.januarymagazine.com/nonfictio...-- posted by bridget1
» Melissa175 - Businesswomen
I totally agree that african-american women are in double jeopardy due to race and gender, but I have only one suggestion that could assist african-american women in climbing the corporate ladder, and that is obtain your M.B.A. With whatever your concentration in business may be, accoutning, financing (Banking), management, and/or marketing, to succeed in the business world you have to have the degree and ambition. If you take no for an answer, you have fallen into white america's trap. That's what they want, so don't give them the satisfaction.-- posted by Melissa175
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