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OUR FEATURED SOLUTIONS
Opportunities
Studies show that organizations with inclusive and diverse talent
outperform in the following areas:
People
19%
Boost in retention
57%
Better collaboration
58%
Boost in ability to correctly price stocks and focus on facts
Productivity
70%
Increased success in new markets
40%
More market share
42%
Additional patent citations for mixed-gender teams vs single gender teams
15x
More sales for most diverse vs least diverse companies
9%
More sales for every 1% increase in corporate ethnic populations
Profit
35%
Financial Returns (above the industry mean with ethnically diverse companies)
15%
Financial Returns (above the industry mean with top-quartile gender diverse companies)
26%
Outperformance of large companies with at least one female board member as compared with their industry peers
The Professional Maze: Challenges APAs Face
Asian Pacific Americans face challenges in career and professional settings.
A few of these include:
47% below Parity
APAs had the lowest Executive Parity Index (EPI) among all racial minorities that had an EPI that’s below parity
271% less likely
Asian women were less likely to be Executives than white women
88% less likely
Asian men were less likely to be Executives than white women
3x more likely
for APA men to quit hindered from achieving their full potential at work
40% more likely
for APA women to plan to quit within the next year when their potential is inhibited
Hindered Advancement
9.8% of the federal professional workforce in 2016 were APAs, but there were only
4.4% at the highest level.
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Banarjee, R., Reitz, J., & Oreopoulos, P. (2017). Do large employers treat racial minorities more fairly? Munk School of Global Affairs & University of Toronto.
Gee, B. & Peck, D. (2018, May). Asian Americans Are the Least Likely Group in the U.S. to Be Promoted to Management. Harvard Business Review.
Hewlett, S.A. (2011). Asians in America: What’s Holding Back the “Model Minority?” Forbes.
Johnson, S. & Sy, T. (2016, December). Why Aren’t There More Asian Americans in Leadership Positions? Harvard Business Review.
Kelly, S. (2017, March 13). “For Asian-Americans.” Daily Racial Slights Invade the Nights. Cornell Chronicle.
Lee, J. & Ramakrishnan, K. (2018, March 27). Asian Americans Think an Elite College Degree Will Shelter Them from Discrimination It Won’t. The Los Angeles Times.
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