Misogynoir in the Workplace

Drawing on interviews with Black women in leadership positions across various sectors - including  journalism, politics, academia, healthcare, charities and unions - this report shines a light on the experiences and challenges they face in the workplace. By journeying through their early-career, mid-career and senior-career trajectories, Runnymede unravel how Black women understand the intersecting features of their identity; how these factors influence their potential to access professional positions of seniority; and the way they are treated when holding these positions.

Recommendations for employers included: development of anti-racist action plans that include an ethnicity and gender pay gap report, records of complaints and outcomes, disciplinary action data, publishing ethnicity progression data, line management training, where there are only one or two black women within an organisation, investing in access to an external black woman of seniority to provide ongoing mentoring e.g. Women of Colour Global Network.

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