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Over the last forty years, black women have come into their own, but they still have far to go. In 1940, most black women who worked outside the home were domestics. Today millions of dedicated black women have joined the work force. Yet fewer than 3 percent have risen into the corporate ranks. Why so few? By the year 2000, 8.5 million black women will be working outside the home. What can they expect? In Work, Sister, Work, Cydney and Leslie Shields go deep into the problems black women confront in the workplace in order to answer these questions. For them there is not just the glass ceiling of corporate politics and sexism, the old boys' club and the dual demands of home and office - experienced by all women who seek to advance - the ceiling black women run into is concrete. They must bear the double burden of their sex compounded with their race. And there is more, according to the authors. Black women have been unable to develop an adequate sense of their own worth and power to accomplish their ends. Until the black woman comes to terms with these problems, as well as with problems of her own making, she will never get ahead. Work, Sister, Work is directed to the black woman wh

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Author

Cydney Shields and Leslie C. Shields

Publisher

Simon & Schuster, Incorporated

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780671873059

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Management, Business, Social Science

Rating

4.33 / 5 (3 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14