[Diversity & Inclusion] How Workplace Bias Damages Asian Women's Lives

When The ‘Model Minority’ Crashes Into The ‘Bamboo Ceiling’

By: Stacey Tisdale

Asian American women are most likely to have graduate degrees--but least likely to be in upper management. It's called the Bamboo Ceiling and it often leads to physical and psychological problems, like depression, stress, and increased suicide attempts, especially among young Asian American women. The impact of microaggressions and workplace bias also cause women of color to leave their careers rather than try to "fit in" to a corporate culture that doesn't accept them as they are.

Wealth Wednesdays is exposing the impact of workplace discrimination on the lives and careers of women of color in a new series we're calling Very Courageous Conversations, with our partners at Paradigm for Parity, an organization whose goal is gender and racial equity in corporate leadership. It's a brutally honest but also inspiring discussion, hosted by Wealth Wednesdays' Stacey Tisdale.