{"id":1759,"date":"2017-10-03T14:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T14:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=1759"},"modified":"2017-09-29T14:30:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:30:14","slug":"racism-in-the-workplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/racism-in-the-workplace\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Experience More Racism at Work Than Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thirty-one percent of women say they have experienced racism in the workplace, compared to 22% of men.<\/p>\n

That’s according to the latest reading of an ongoing query<\/a> by Comparably<\/a> of more than 10,000 workers across a variety of industries, including tech.<\/p>\n

African Americans are the biggest target<\/b><\/p>\n

African American men and women were subject to the highest rates of racism: 54% said they have experienced racist sentiment in the workplace. Thirty-two percent of Hispanics and Latinos and 29 percent of Asians and Pacific Islanders said the same.<\/p>\n

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Above age 35, the rate rises<\/b><\/p>\n

Racism affects people of all ages mostly equally, though those\u00a036 and older seem to have slightly higher rates than those younger than 36. The rate peaks for those aged 56 to 60, many of whom started their careers during the thick of the Civil Rights era.<\/p>\n

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A tie to education?<\/b><\/p>\n

Workers who have achieved a high school level education report the highest rates of being subject to racist behavior (31%) while workers with a higher education report lower rates: 22% of workers with a bachelor’s degree report having been subject to racist behavior.<\/p>\n

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Racism by city<\/b><\/p>\n

Workers in Atlanta reported the highest rates of racism (32%) followed closely by Dallas (30%). Workers in San Diego reported the lowest rates (15%) followed next by Boston (19%).<\/p>\n

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The latest reading is as of Oct. 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thirty-one percent of women say they have experienced racism in the workplace, compared to 22% of men. That’s according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably of more than 10,000 workers across a variety of industries, including tech. African Americans are the biggest target African American men and women were subject to … Read full-story <\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[69,112,61],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}