📌 📢As a Black professional, I often feel the weight of certain expectations and stereotypes. When I express frustration, it seems like my tone is scrutinized, while my colleague faces no consequences for misrepresenting my work or the clean-up I have to do. There have been times when my efforts go unnoticed, and it can be disheartening not to receive the support I hope for. I truly value the skills and lessons that contribute to my growth, but it can be frustrating to see a non-Black colleague get promoted for doing just less than basics while I’m told I need to do more to even get considered for a promotion. . . . #humanresources #humannotresources #blackprofessionals #blackwomeninworkforce
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Let’s talk about the ‘Mammyfication’ of Black women leaders… …because it is a very real phenomenon. My amazing sis DeLisha Tapscott, Ed.D defines ‘Mammyfication’ as the idea that Black women’s ‘place’ is to ‘save’ and ‘fix’ things in crisis mode. Instead of Black women being honoured for their skills, they are used in ways to ‘hold’ the organisation, but the organisation doesn’t honour these skills. DeLisha also looks at the concept of othermothering and how Black women often use tenets of community building to create culture and safety. When Black women are hired in these roles and asked to use these skills, they are often ‘boxed in’ and our power limited because it becomes ‘too much’ for those who seek to promote and upkeep ⚪️ supremacy. DeLisha’s book chapter ‘Beyond The Veil: The Black Girl I Could Be’ will be coming out in early 2025, where she explores the lack of agency that Black women have in these leadership roles from the perspective of DEI and People & Culture/HR roles - and I can’t wait to read it! Make sure that you follow her to stay tuned for further updates. Since DeLisha dropped the mic after her last sentence, I’m picking the mic back up to repeat it: 🎤”The bottom line is that the Mammyfication of Black women in leadership roles happens because they were never seen as true leaders equal to their counterparts - instead they are used, abused and dismissed until the next crisis”… …and the lowest line needs to be paid the HIGHEST attention. #BlackWomenLeaders #BlackWomenAtWork #Misogynoir #Mammyfication #SystemicChange
Same here. Experienced the type that says they want me to figure it out and at the beginning it was great then when I wasn't useful and a threat, they used my "figure it out" against me to show incompetence. I didn't make the right decision. smh
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1moMammification- new word to my vocab. I deffo feel I have been treated as such. Called in to de-escalate the situation /crisis when schools have been low staffed. Too many times I've covered classes without the proper financial compensation or even TOIL. Yet other members of staff were rarely called upon to do extra work for free. It was mainly me. Even when I protested (politely) and identified the unfairness of it all, only to be gaslighted and told I should be a 'team-player'. It's quite unbelievable I lasted 20 yrs in education with all that blatant discrimination.