"Young Latinos today are unique. They are not pioneers. They are perplexed. They don't know what to do to break through the glass ceiling."
- Andrés Tomás Tapia
“Latinos now are almost 18 percent of the population,” he said. “When it comes to management level positions, they are woefully underrepresented.”
He added that Latinos’ growing voting strength, presence in popular culture, and expanding consumer base are forces that society and business should recognize.
According to the Alliance for Board Diversity, Hispanics/Latinos held 3.5 percent of Fortune 500 board seats in 2016. Tapia and Rodriquez refer to this as “the 4 percent shame.”
“Something besides merit is preventing Latino and Hispanic advancement to these executive offi cer positions in Fortune 500 fi rms,” they note in their book. “The gap points to the reality that favoritism, discrimination, and bias do exist in most corporate cultures.”
The Latino community also needs to look inward and resolve issues that keep them at odds with and divided from others within their culture. “We need to get over them if we are going
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to advance the Latino cause,” said Tapia.
The experiences of Latinos have diff ered greatly depending on their generation.
“Baby boomers were pioneers, and discrimination during their career years was more overt,” Tapia said, “but now discrimination is more subtle, and unconscious bias is another issue with which to contend. Boomers also had no support or recognition in the workplace, and many experienced identity crises. For Generation X and millennials, there are more Latinos advancing into management and upper management, and there are Latino affi nity groups as well. These generations are far less likely to face the identity crisis issue of the boomers.”
“There are so many of them they don’t have the same risk of erasure, but they still have to fi gure out what does it mean to be a Latino in a multi- racial USA,” said Tapia of the younger generation.
“Young Latinos today are unique. They are not the pioneers. They are perplexed. They don’t know what to do
to break through the glass ceiling.” HE
According to the Alliance for Board Diversity, Hispanics/Latinos held 3.5 percent of Fortune 500 board seats in 2016. Tapia and Rodriquez refer to this as “the 4 percent shame.”
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