Most white collared minority workers often feel alone. This has to do with discrimination and psychological affects of being the only black person in the workplace. Black women have to constantly restrain themselves and monitor every move that they make. They have to be careful to not come off as angry, frustrated and annoyed especially when it comes to racial topics and outright ignorance. They feel as of they must defy any and every racial and gender stereotype. Because black women get it twice, they are most likely holding in a lot of frustration and are ticking time bombs waiting to explode, but the mustn’t because they will be portrayed as “angry black women”. They will be black on the inside but not be stereotypical “black” on the outside. To expand on the natural hair discrimination, they will straighten out their hair just to counter the “unprofessional ” look.

Black women will feel the need to counter negative stereotypes by working longer hours and harder even though they will still be passed on from promotions and other higher positions. Black women women will work twice as hard to get half of what their counterparts get. Black women are constantly re imagining themselves just to fit in and to hopefully move up the ladder even though it usually does not happen.

 

 

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/10/being-black-work/409990/

These Charts Show Exactly How Few Minority Women Are in Positions of Power

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2016/05/20/there-could-soon-be-no-black-female-ceos-among-americas-largest-companies/?utm_term=.59f88af4fea6

http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1714&context=scripps_theses