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Experiences Of Black Women In The Workforce, Neferiatiti Lukina Holt
Experiences Of Black Women In The Workforce, Neferiatiti Lukina Holt
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Black women in America face double discrimination in the workforce. The problem is that Black women experience discrimination in the workforce based on gender and race. The purpose of this qualitative descriptive phenomenological study was to explore Black women’s experiences of discrimination in the workforce based on gender and race. The conceptual frameworks that grounded this study were general systems theory and intersectionality theory. Purposive sampling was used to identify participants; data were collected through semi-structured interviews with 13 Black women who work in a large city in central Texas. Thematic analysis based on descriptive phenomenology was applied to reveal …