Battling Discrimination And The Bamboo Ceiling: The Bias Facing Asian American Managers
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A spring 2021 survey by Pew Research showed that 45% of Asian adults experienced a variety of outwardly offensive incidents since the start of the pandemic, including racial slurs and remarks that they are to blame for COVID-19. “Generally, Asian Americans are perceived as smart, hardworking, easy-to-manage employees,” Buck Gee, a former VP at Cisco and executive advisor of the Ascend Foundation told CNBC. “The problem with that model is that we’re also seen as good workers, but not great leaders.”
