January 29, 2024
Announcing a New Resource Site for Race-Grounded Career Advising
Originally published on the Connected Learning Alliance blog.
Racial inequity in access to good jobs in the U.S. has increased in the past few decades. Though Black and Latine workers have made progress in high school and college completion, the wage gap with White workers has grown at every level of educational attainment (Carnevale et al., 2019). In the tech sector, despite well-funded federal programs and industry investments, representation of Blacks and Latines has remained stagnant. Even after making it into the tech workforce, retention is often a challenge (Collins-Puri, 2023). These are indicators of the limitations of a "pipeline" model for addressing equity that focuses on individual skills training and credentials. Black and Latine youth persist through college or vocational training only to encounter persistent biases and structural barriers to good careers. These include economic and infrastructural barriers, as well as often overlooked cultural barriers, such as pervasive racial bias, the stress of navigating workplace culture as a racial minority, White-dominated conceptions of what it means to be "professional," and a charity mentality among employers.
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