{"id":12336,"date":"2022-03-09T15:49:08","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T22:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/?p=12336"},"modified":"2022-03-09T15:49:08","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T22:49:08","slug":"black-women-are-wildly-underrepresented-in-the-c-suite-change-starts-at-the-entry-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/careercenter\/black-women-are-wildly-underrepresented-in-the-c-suite-change-starts-at-the-entry-level\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Women Are Wildly Underrepresented in the C-Suite. Change Starts at the Entry Level."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

by Maura Walters<\/a>
Re-posted by The Muse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In 2021, just 3% of computing-related jobs were\u00a0held by Black\u00a0women<\/a>. It\u2019s a disheartening statistic whose ripple effect reaches\u00a0the\u00a0highest levels of the\u00a0corporate world:\u00a0It was also reported in 2020\u00a0that\u00a0women held the top job of CEO at\u00a0just 37 of the Fortune 500 companies<\/a>\u2014a record high of 7.4%\u2014and none of those women were Black.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tumi Mosedame, a product manager at Intuit, believes companies have the power to change this by actively seeking out Black female talent at the entry level. \u201cI think it\u2019s important that companies implement real, tangible processes for advancing Black women in the workplace,\u201d Mosedame says. \u201cI can\u2019t wait for the day when I see Black women in the C-suites of every company. I believe I\u2019ll get to that point myself, but I really want it to be the norm, not an anomaly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mosedame actually experienced firsthand the huge impact entry-level hiring and mentorship can make on one\u2019s professional trajectory: She\u2019s a recent college graduate who landed a full-time job at Intuit<\/a>\u2014the global technology platform behind products like TurboTax, QuickBooks, Mint, Credit Karma, and Mailchimp\u2014in August 2020, after interning at the company that same summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, Mosedame talks about how her internship at Intuit prepped her for her full-time role, how the company\u2019s Rotational Product Manager (RPM) program has provided her with valuable mentorship, and what she thinks businesses can do to create more opportunities to advance Black women to leadership positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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