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Women of color face unique gender and racial barriers to their professional advancement and are less likely to move into leadership roles. In today’s bonus episode, we speak to  the women of The FLI Collective, a lifestyle podcast that deals with the experiences of being first generation and low income in academia. We examine some of these challenges and discuss strategies for advancing women of color, including when we should pursue stretch opportunities and how we lead and bring others along with us. Welcome Drs. Marlette Jackson, Edritz Javelosa, Nidia Ruedas-Gracia, Miranda Stratton, and Courtney Pena!

Topics Covered: 

• Defining FLI – first generation, low-income college graduate
• Navigating privileged spaces as a class migrant
• What stops women of color from applying to jobs
• Why women discount their qualifications when job hunting
• The power of networking
• Defining stereotype threat
• What women of color should do when considering a new job
• How women of color lead and navigate leadership
• Recognizing the invisible labor women of color managers undertake
• Why women of color are not promoted into senior positions
• How to self-advocate in the workplace

Highlights:

• “Women, women of color, we are socialized into following rules and there are very harsh consequences if we don’t. We have to re-socialize into feeling more comfortable, just applying.”
• “Never look at any opportunity as too small.” 
• “Think bigger than right now.”
• “Unconscious bias has very real, very tangible, very conscious results.”

Other References: 

• Tara Sophia Mohr, Why Women Don’t Apply for Jobs Unless They’re 100% Qualified, Harvard Business Review, Aug. 25, 2014.
• Max Nisen, Employers ignore almost everything on your resume–except this, Dec. 2, 2014
• Sarah Cassidy, Apply for jobs like a privileged White Man in these five easy steps, Medium, Aug. 25, 2018
• McKinsey & Co. and LeanIn.org, Women in the Workplace 2018
• Cindy Pace, How Women of Color Get to Senior Management, Harvard Business Review, Aug. 31, 2018.

Connect with the ladies of The FLI Collective: 

On their website: https://www.theflicollective.com/

On Twitter: @fli_collective

On Instagram: @theflicollective

Via E-mail: asktheflicollective@gmail.com

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