Evidence shows women of colour are still hugely under-represented in senior roles at work. Here, three women open up about how racism and discriminationhas affected their careers. 

How discrimimination and racism holds women back at work

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As a Black woman in the corporate world, my existence is hollow so I’m not motivated to progress beyond the need to earn an income

Self-employment seems the only way to eventually get out of this mistreatment

If you want to pay your bills and live, you have to shut up and deal with it  

Progress has been very slow up until this point but I do think that the resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement has been a major wake-up call

 Evidence shows women of colour are still hugely under-represented in senior roles at work. Here, three women open up about how racism has affected their career

“I’ll forever have to prove myself”: the reality of climbing the career ladder as a woman of colour