White men are still nearly 8 times as likely as Black women to be a top executive.White women are 4.5 times more likely than Black women to hold a leadership position, USA TODAY found.Discrimination is disrupting the careers of Black women despite pledges after George Floyd’s murder.Deep racial inequities in the U.S. workforce disproportionately harm Black women and other women of color. Nowhere are those gaps more stark than in who gets the jobs with the most pay, perks and power, a new USA TODAY analysis of hundreds of top companies has found.White women are 4.5 times more likely than Black women to hold a leadership position, according to the analysis, which drew on the latest reports of employee demographics at 287 of the nation’s 500 biggest companies provided by data firm DiversIQ.
This is why corporate America still has so few Black women executives – USA TODAY
