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News Mar 02, 2020
The Pasadena NAACP is demanding that PCC investigate its unjust hiring and promoting practices. – Courtesy photo / Prayitno (CC 2.0)
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ThePasadena National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) isinvestigating the hiring and promotional practices at Pasadena City College(PCC) specifically related to black employees and black women.
Aforthcoming report by the organization will encapsulate the data andexperiences of current and former black employees feeling invisible related tohiring, as well as career pathways.
Accordingto the NAACP, Allen Edson, president of the NAACP and his predecessor, DelYarbrough, received numerous inquiries by black employees, yet they have beenreportedly told over the course of the past five years by various presidents,administrators and trustees at PCC that they were “looking into the matter.”
Accordingto LeanIn.org., African American women ask for promotions and raises at aboutthe same rates as white women, but they get worse results. Regardless of theiroccupation, level of education, or years of experience, black women are stillpaid less than men, and far less likely than others to be promoted in theworkplace.
Onaverage, Black women in California make 60 cents to every dollar a white manmakes, according to the NationalPartnership for Women and Families. Regardless ofsocioeconomic or education level, Black women work decades longer than whitemen to match their earnings. The cumulative effect of lower earnings for Blackwomen means less money for their families, housing, food, disposable income,retirement, savings etc. especially since more than 80% of Black mothers arethe main breadwinners for their households.
“PCChas not arrived in the 21st century; it has stuck with discriminatory employmentpractices that most of us assumed had ended long ago,” John J. Kennedy Pasadenacouncilmember said. “I am outraged to learn that such discrimination stillexists in the hiring and promotion process at PCC.”
ThePasadena NAACP is requesting “thoughtful consideration and leadership by way ofactual changed behavior.” They also invite the institution to discuss with theNAACP active solutions to increasing the representation of African Americans invarious positions at the college and achieving pay parity for all.
