AAPI women have the smallest pay gap—but that stat ‘masks’ big economic disparities, say experts
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Though Asian Americans make up 13% of all working professionals today, data shows that they make up just 6% of executive leadership positions. Asian women and Black women, according to research by Denise Peck, an executive advisor at the pan-Asian leadership organization Ascend Foundation, have the smallest shares of executive-level representation in comparison with their representation in lower-level roles.
