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Minority women fill the executive suites as never before. An Asian-American woman, Andrea Jung, is CEO of Avon. Nina Tassler, a Latina, is president of CBS Entertainment. And Condoleezza Rice, who is African American, has a job just a few steps removed from President. Although their numbers at the top are still tiny--at 429 large companies surveyed by research and advisory group Catalyst in 2003, 1.6% of corporate officers were minority women--more women of an ethnic or racial minority hold senior-level jobs than ever before...
...conventional manner. Living on a college campus doesn’t make this task easier.“It’s really hard not to get sucked into the single-race track. As pre-frosh we step foot on campus and are immediately bombarded by members of Fuerza Latina or the Asian American Association or the Black Students Association who essentially claim us if we look a certain way or if our last names fit a certain category. Appearance and last name sometimes tell only half the story,” says a multiracial sophomore student who was also...
...says he’d like to set up a women’s center along the lines of the Harvard Foundation for Intercultural and Race Relations, which operates out of a small office in the basement of Thayer Hall and coordinates dozens of student organizations, from Fuerza Latina to Hillel to the Black Students Association...
According to Beasley, who is also the political action chair of the Black Students Association, 24 student groups had already agreed to participate in STOP. Representatives from organizations including Fuerza Latina, the Undergraduate Council, and the Harvard-Radcliffe Asian American Christian Fellowship attended the meeting...
...analysis by researchers at the University of California at San Diego found that magazines targeted at minorities, such as Ebony and Latina, had proportionally double the ads for junk food, cigarettes and alcohol and one-fourth as many health-promoting ads as mags like Good Housekeeping...