Invited reaction: Black and white women managers: Access to opportunity

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Higginbotham

• Book ID: 102254930
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 57 KB
• Volume: 15
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1044-8004
• DOI: 10.1002/hrdq.1095

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

In a survey of Black and White women managers, Linda M. Hite identifies differences in the managers' perceptions of opportunities available to different race and gender groups. Her findings reveal divergent beliefs about the opportunities for people of color; there is more similarity in Black and White women's views when comparing opportunities for White women and men for getting hired, promoted, receiving salary increases, and other workplace challenges. When making comparisons with either men or women of color, White women are far more optimistic about the opportunities for people of color than are Black women. Hite uses this study to explore the lack of attention to race and racial discrimination among White women, whose views are often assumed to represent all women in management. HRD practice and research can look more closely at the perceptions and experiences of Black women to learn how better to promote their careers, since strategies that increase the number of White women might not be helpful in advancing the careers of Black and other women of color.