African-Americans have been working hard from the first days our ancestors saw these shores, yet we have yet to reach full representation in many of our nation’s leading industries. Forty years after the civil rights movement, our level of representation in many fields lags severely behind our percentage of the general population. The good news is that more leaders in these fields are taking diversity seriously, which can be a boon for blacks in the coming decades. Industry watch dogs, political organizations and professional groups are pressuring hiring managers to step up minority recruitment and retention efforts.
Black have been underrepresented in the following fields for years, but now there is an emphasis on rectifying the problem. The top ten careers in which African-Americans are underrepresented ironically point the way out of limiting employment scenarios onto new paths:
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Wow! With that being said, what job areas are left that minorities are actually in? It's crazy to think about the way previous generations have limited jobs/money/success for African-Americans. I still think that we need to continue to let equal opportunities for all be a common tool used in the work place -- if only to remind us that we're all equal together.
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Education, Education, Education, I can't say it enough!! Last year at my son's elementary school there were not ANY male teachers. I think it is terrible that black men are not looking at teaching as a profession. Young African American boys need to see a strong role modal in the classroom and know that he doesn't need to be an athlete to be successful.
ReplyDeleteI think the main reason African American men do not look at teaching as a profession is because of the pay.
I feel that we do need more African American males in the education field. In my daughter middle school there were a few African American male teachers and everytime I had a group meeting with the teachers, they would always praise the male teachers and would speak about how appreciative they were to have them. There need to be some type of program targeting this area to get more African American males involved in this field once their off to college. We must first keep our young black males in school so they can graduate and take an interest in college life. They are the future.
ReplyDeleteQuite frankly I believe African Americans are underrepresented in any lucrative, top paying profession! One reason is the economy, which has shut down many opportunities for blacks and really anyone for that fact as of late. Eduction is defiantly the way to go nowadays because a person without a degree eliminates themselves from top paying jobs but with the struggling economy is hard for almost anyone to move up. I have an uncle that received his BA in Criminal Justice last August and is also a 8 year veteran of the military and he is still unemployed but actively looking.
ReplyDeleteI read that African Americans make up roughly 12% of the U.S. population but 46% of the prison population, that is staggering to think about. We have to find a way to keep our black men out of prison and into the schools to make themselves competitive on an intellectual level and not on the street level!!!