The model minority stereotype may depict Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders as uniformly successful, but a new report exposes how the racial group continues to struggle with advancement in the workplace, particularly Asian American women.
released by the management consulting company McKinsey found that while Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders are heavily represented in corporate jobs, their presence drops off significantly at the board of director level, with Asian American and Pacific Islander women experiencing a particularly severe drop, at 80%.
The report pointed out further inequalities among the 8.8 million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the workforce. Even though they start off overrepresented by more than two times compared to their share of the population at the entry level, Asian American representation drops off by more than half overall at the board of director level. And among the Fortune 500 companies, 22 are led by Asian Americans.
Such ideas are compounded by the “motherhood penalty,” Chin said, which merges with stereotypes around Asian parenting to keep women back. Some Asian American women she has spoken to have reported that the “tiger mom” stereotype, which assumes Asian women are strict, demanding and unfeeling caregivers, can harm their advancement in the workplace. Many are seen as overly preoccupied with parenting rather than work, Chin said.
“The way they’re brought up is that they’re American. And part of the American story is to pull yourself up by your own bootstraps,” Chin said. “But you can’t really do that, because what that story leaves out is that a lot of people have been here for generations. Their parents may be lawyers, corporate executives, or they know people and they get information from them.”
Those who do rise in the workplace, Kim said, end up feeling “grateful” because of the underrepresentation around them, and others may feel unworthy to discuss or challenge their superiors about the possibility of discrimination when they haven’t ascended.
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