Table 2.
Distribution of workplace discrimination types and percent frequency, by race/ethnicity
Total sample (N = 664, %) | Whites (n = 260, %) | Asian Pacific Islanders (n = 185, %) | African Americans (n = 66, %) | Latino (n = 105, %) | Mixed and other (n = 48, %) | p | |
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Types of workplace discrimination | |||||||
Race/ethnicity | |||||||
No | 91.4 | 96.9 | 88.6 | 80.3 | 90.5 | 89.6 | <.001 |
Yes | 8.6 | 3.1 | 11.4 | 19.7 | 9.5 | 10.4 | |
Nationality | |||||||
No | 93.7 | 98.5 | 89.2 | 86.4 | 95.2 | 91.7 | <.001 |
Yes | 6.3 | 1.5 | 10.8 | 13.6 | 4.8 | 8.3 | |
Gender | |||||||
No | 95.0 | 95.0 | 95.1 | 97.0 | 94.3 | 93.8 | .94 |
Yes | 5.0 | 5.0 | 4.9 | 3.0 | 5.7 | 6.2 | |
Sexual orientation | |||||||
No | 98.5 | 98.8 | 98.9 | 97.0 | 100.0 | 93.8 | <.05 |
Yes | 1.5 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 6.2 | |
Age | |||||||
No | 94.0 | 94.2 | 93.5 | 89.4 | 96.2 | 95.8 | .44 |
Yes | 6.0 | 5.8 | 6.5 | 10.6 | 3.8 | 4.2 | |
Percent frequency of workplace discrimination | |||||||
Hiring | |||||||
Never | 91.3 | 95.0 | 88.1 | 84.8 | 90.5 | 93.8 | |
Sometimes | 3.6 | 1.9 | 5.9 | 6.1 | 3.8 | 0.0 | .11 |
Often | 5.1 | 3.1 | 5.9 | 9.1 | 5.4 | 6.2 | |
Evaluation | |||||||
Never | 92.6 | 95.0 | 89.7 | 89.4 | 93.3 | 93.8 | |
Sometimes | 3.3 | 2.7 | 4.9 | 4.5 | 1.0 | 4.2 | .36 |
Often | 4.1 | 2.3 | 5.4 | 6.1 | 5.7 | 2.1 | |
Work assignments | |||||||
Never | 89.9 | 92.3 | 87.6 | 86.4 | 90.5 | 89.6 | |
Sometimes | 2.9 | 2.3 | 4.3 | 3.0 | 1.9 | 2.1 | .75 |
Often | 7.2 | 5.4 | 8.1 | 10.6 | 7.6 | 8.3 | |
Promotion | |||||||
Never | 94.0 | 94.6 | 91.9 | 97.0 | 93.3 | 95.8 | |
Sometimes | 1.8 | 1.5 | 3.2 | 0.0 | 1.0 | 2.1 | .69 |
Often | 4.2 | 3.8 | 4.9 | 3.0 | 5.7 | 2.1 | |
Day-to-day interactions | |||||||
Never | 87.3 | 90.4 | 85.9 | 75.8 | 89.5 | 87.5 | |
Sometimes | 4.2 | 1.9 | 6.5 | 9.1 | 3.8 | 12.1 | <.05 |
Often | 8.4 | 7.7 | 7.6 | 15.2 | 6.7 | 10.4 |
Comparisons for between-group differences, based on χ2 tests
Bold value indicates that significant at the p < .05 level