# Minority underrepresentation

`kaal:entity:minority-underrepresentation`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `minority-underrepresentation`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself.

## Every claim under this term

2 claims across 1 works, 2017 to 2017.

**2017**

- [3071378-002](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3071378-002) [empirical/evidenced] -- In the Fortune 1000 sample, minorities hold about 15 percent of employee positions but only 6 percent of management positions and 3 percent of executive level management positions, so representation falls as seniority rises.
  > In the sample dataset of Fortune 1000 companies, 37% of employees are women and about 15% are minorities.16 Management positions are held only at 17% by women and 6% by minorities.17 Executive level management positions are only at 6% women and 3% minorities.18
  Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3071378
- [3071378-022](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3071378-022) [mechanism/argued] -- The clone syndrome, meaning companies' desire to hire people similar to the existing workforce, causes minority underrepresentation and makes it difficult for minorities and women to break into jobs predominantly held by white men.
  > The clone syndrome,75 e.g. companies desire to hire people that are similar to the existing work- force, can lead to minority underrepresentation in corporations.76 The clone syndrome makes it difficult for a minority and women to break into a job predominantly held by white men.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Blockchain Technology and Race in Corporate America (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3071378

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