Graduation Year
2015
Document Type
Open Access Senior Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Organizational Studies
Reader 1
Jeff Lewis
Reader 2
Rita Roberts
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© 2015 Victoria C. Sepand
Abstract
Black women in America do not deal exclusively with race or gender discrimination, but many times a combination of the two. This qualitative study seeks to address how black women experience this double discrimination within their organizations’ cultures, policies, and practices. In addition, the career journeys and experiences of the participants interviewed will be analyzed in comparison to the current literature, which states mentoring, training and networking, and women-friendliness are the most effective methods to advancing women and women of color in the workplace. Ultimately, this study discovers that for those methods to work, there needs to be more structure around them and an understanding of race and gender biases on behalf of the organization and its most privileges employees.
Recommended Citation
Sepand, Victoria C., "The Black Ceiling: Barriers to Career Advancement for African American Women in the US" (2015). Scripps Senior Theses. 639.
https://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/639
