{"id":557,"date":"2017-05-26T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/?p=557"},"modified":"2017-05-26T15:18:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T15:18:55","slug":"racism-at-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/racism-at-work\/","title":{"rendered":"1 in 2 African Americans Say They Have Experienced Racism at Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One in two African Americans say they have been subject to racism in the workplace, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/\">Comparably<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Tech vs. Non-tech<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Fifty-two percent of African Americans in the tech industry and 54% of African Americans in industries outside of tech responded \u201cyes\u201d when asked if they\u2019d ever experienced racism at work.<\/p>\n<p>Inside of tech:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/109-have-you-ever-experienced-racism-in-the-workplace\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-560 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/techdiversity.png\" alt=\"techdiversity\" width=\"714\" height=\"409\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/techdiversity-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/techdiversity.png 714w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOutside of tech:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/other\/all-department\/109-have-you-ever-experienced-racism-in-the-workplace\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-559 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/nontechdiversity.png\" alt=\"nontechdiversity\" width=\"718\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/nontechdiversity-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/nontechdiversity.png 718w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>By age<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Workers age 40 and up appeared to experience more racist treatment than younger workers, with the peak among those age 66 and up (32%).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/109-have-you-ever-experienced-racism-in-the-workplace\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-615\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-615\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/raceage.png\" alt=\"raceage\" width=\"744\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/raceage-300x73.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/raceage.png 744w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Cities where this is the most prevalent<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Workers in Dallas, Atlanta and Houston\u00a0reported the highest rates of experiencing racism at work, while workers in Salt Lake City, Boston and Denver reported the lowest rates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/109-have-you-ever-experienced-racism-in-the-workplace\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-617\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-617\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/cityrace-1.png\" alt=\"cityrace\" width=\"635\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/cityrace-1-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/cdn.comparably.com\/00000000\/b\/2017\/05\/cityrace-1.png 635w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out the full reports for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/tech\/all-departments\/109-have-you-ever-experienced-racism-in-the-workplace\">tech<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/guest\/culture\/other\/all-department\/109-have-you-ever-experienced-racism-in-the-workplace\">non-tech<\/a> industries. The latest reading is as of May 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One in two African Americans say they have been subject to racism in the workplace, according to the latest reading of an ongoing query by Comparably. Tech vs. Non-tech Fifty-two percent of African Americans in the tech industry and 54% of African Americans in industries outside of tech responded \u201cyes\u201d when asked if they\u2019d ever &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/racism-at-work\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read full-story <i class=\"cm cm-right-chevron\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[61,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557"}],"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=557"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":640,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/557\/revisions\/640"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comparably.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}