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About women of color in the workplace

Women of color—Asian, Black, Latine, Indigenous, and multiracial—experience exclusion, discrimination, and bias within the workplace. Too few women of color are represented on corporate boards, and many experience an emotional tax at work. Catalyst resources address these obstacles to make your workplace more diverse, equitable, and inclusive.

Emotional tax is pervasive

Experiences of emotional tax — being on guard to protect against bias due to race, ethnicity, and gender — are pervasive globally. Diverse, hybrid teams are the future of work. Organizations can take action to nurture inclusive team environments to boost well-being, engagement, team problem-solving, and team cohesion.

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Emotional tax impacts employee retention

  • 61%

    of employees from marginalized racial and ethnic groups are on guard to bias within their work teams.

  • 3x

    is the increase in intent to stay for employees who are not on guard to bias in their work teams.

Addressing the gender pay gap is critical

The gender pay gap for women of color is a serious obstacle to equity. To attract and retain key talent, address it with strategies like making compensation analysis business-critical, advocating, looking at fairness holistically, and helping team members understand the system.

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