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Article: Advancing African American women in the workplace: new study finds challenges remain despite push for diversity.(Facts & Figures)
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- Black Enterprise
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
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Omarosa Manigault-Stallworth has become a household name to millions of Americans who watched NBC's The Apprentice. Unfortunately, she gained notoriety for behavior that projects the most negative stereotypes of black females: angry, conniving, defensive, and impossible to work with. But Manigault-Stallworth's situation represents an even more harsh reality in this country: African American women are not advancing as far in corporate America as their white, Asian, and Latina counterparts. The biggest barriers they face are negative, race-based stereotypes; more frequent questioning of their credibility and authority; and a lack of institutional support, according to the ...