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ERIC Number: ED650010
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021
Pages: 130
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: 979-8-3584-8315-6
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Challenges Navigating Racialized Enclosures in Technology/Engineering Executive Leadership: A Narrative Inquiry of African American/Black Women
Shirlene Henry-James
ProQuest LLC, Ed.D. Dissertation, Stockton University
This study examined the racialized enclosure that African American/Black women in technology and engineering experience as they navigate to executive leadership. This qualitative narrative inquiry research explored, through lived experiences, the racialized enclosures inhibiting African American/Black women from excelling to executive leadership positions in technology/engineering organizations. Eight narrative one-on-one interviews were conducted using open-ended, semi-structured questions focused on the participants' past, present, and future as it relates to the trajectory of their career in technology/engineering. This research aimed to explore enclosures and intersectionality concerns that African American/Black women encounter excelling to technology/engineering executive leadership. Five major themes emerged from the interviews of these African American/Black women technology/engineering professionals including: foundation in math and science in their early education, challenges/racialized enclosures faced in organizations, navigating through the organizational hierarchies, the effects of race and gender (intersectionality) on upward mobility, and lessons to pass on to the next generations. The study found that the enclosures hindering the upward mobility of African American/Black women in technology and engineering included isolation, black female stereotyping, no advocates/sponsors, invisibility, hypervisibility (need to do more than colleagues), lack of support, lack of respect, masculinized culture, stereotypical perceptions, more degrees -- lower titles, and lack of leadership training. The results of this study will inform technology/engineering organizations on the racialized enclosures/challenges of African American/Black women to create a more equitable path to leadership and a diverse executive leadership team. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com.bibliotheek.ehb.be/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]
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Publication Type: Dissertations/Theses - Doctoral Dissertations
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Language: English
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