An overwhelming majority of racialized women say they feel invisible at work–unseen, unheard and largely “erased” by their white peers and bosses
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Ninety-five per cent of those interviewed by the researchers reported experiencing “erasure” at work, meaning that they felt largely ignored or unacknowledged in their workplaces because of both race and gender. They described it as different from overt racial prejudice or hostility. The rules for how we talk about women at work have changed “Last month, when CNN anchor Don Lemon remarked that 51-year-old U.S. presidential hopeful Nikki Haley was ‘past her prime,’ I was totally unsurprised,” writes Stacy Lee Kong. “Lemon was commenting on her proposal to require mental-competency tests for presidential candidates over the age of 75, an ageist suggestion that – fairly, I think – made Lemon ‘uncomfortable.
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