African American Women Essay

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African American Women & The Glass Ceiling With the rise in divorce rates and single mother families more women are no longer staying at home with their children they are becoming more involved in the workforce. According to (Simmons, (2009) “In 2005, African-American women occupied 9,014,000 positions in the labor force, of which 2,483,000 were administrative and managerial positions (Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2005). African-American women occupied only 1.6% of the 10,092 corporate office positions within Fortune 500 companies. African-American women are over-represented in service professions that include clerical and sales positions, and limited in positions such as officers, managers, professionals and technicians. The problem is that African-American women occupy less than 3% of all managerial positions…show more content…
Not many mangers have the ambition to motivate and create training programs for the advancement of women in the workplace. It would benefit organizations to show more diversity in higher levels in the workplace. This would show younger African American women that they to can become CEOs of large companies as well. African American women in higher positions also need to step up and become mentors to the younger professional generations coming fresh out of college. An additional factor is sexual harassment in the workplace. We all are aware that men in high positions are likely to use their power to create sexual advancements to the women they oversee. I to have been a victim of this type of behavior and was not advance because I wasn’t receptive to the quid pro quo which means “one thing in return for another”! (Macionis, pg. 291) Many women just as I was are afraid of losing their job if they report sexual harassment. I for one just left the company where I experienced sexual harassment. These are only a few external factors of the glass ceilinf or African American

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