Doctoral Study Problem Statement

Doctoral Study Problem Statement

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Doctoral Study Problem Statement

Women of Color leading organizations as CEO’s

‘Women of color’ basically describes female of different color and this term originally used in American society to point out black people due to their dark complexion specifically for black women. In reality not all people of color suffer from racial discrimination but black women are least likely to be promoted and supported by their managers in the workplace CITATION Edb16 \l 1033 (Ed by Ballenger & Irby, 2016). This problem arises on a large scale, when women and ethnic subgroups are intentionally less anticipated than white men to be on managerial control and specialist in work organizations. This discrimination is even practical in large organizations where racial subgroups represents professional minorities within the positions of high company executives CITATION Coo14 \l 1033 (Cook & Glass, 2014).

The data obtained from different studies and researches revealed that there is a big imbalance in the percentage of working African American women for the positions as CEOs. From past blockades African American women suffered in reaching to top leadership positions due to following reasons: culture of organization, racism and ethnic discrimination CITATION Saw171 \l 1033 (Sawyer, 2017). When a woman from a different ethnicity is appointed as CEO of a large organization, males executives of top management help their team members less.

To become CEO as a woman is not hard enough, but being a woman of color is very difficult CITATION Edb14 \l 1033 (Ed by Day, 2014). The status of woman as CEO acknowledged that factors such as ethnicity, race, social and economic status, sexual orientation, disability position, religion, national origin, gender individuality and age, specify their personal experiences for any woman who tries to achieve leadership CITATION Zwe11 \l 1033 (Zweigenhaft & Domhoff, 2011). Research show that in America different steps and actions are taken to achieve gender equality and authorize all women at work place. The World Bank Group’s Women, Business and Law 2018 report, revealed that in year 2018 American Government, number of economies took steps to improve women’s economic presence in indorsing many legal reforms in the past two years CITATION Rho17 \l 1033 (Rhode, 2017).  Apple, Google, and Intel are those technology companies which have openly disclosed their employees’ figure on ethnicity, race, and gender CITATION Sta16 \l 1033 (Staff, 2016).

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Rhode, D. L. (2017). Women and Leadership. Oxford University Press.

Sawyer, R. D. (2017). The Lack of African American Women CEOs in Corporate America: A Qualitative Phenomenological Study. Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies. Walden University.

Staff. (2016). Barriers and Bias: The Status of Women in Leadership. Washington, DC: American Association of University Women (AAUW).

Zweigenhaft, R. L., & Domhoff, G. W. (2011). The New CEOs: Women, African American, Latino, and Asian American Leaders of Fortune 500 Companies. Rowman & Littlefield.