Culture
What If I Only Got Hired Because Of My Skin Color?
At my first job, I arrived bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. It had never crossed my mind that I was hired because I’m Latina. But now, there are few companies where I could get a promotion or a raise without believing that my immutable characteristics — my sex and race — played a part.
By Luna Salinas3 min read
The questioning of my worth didn’t happen until we started hiring more women, some of which were championing the idea of equity among the sexes, and especially among diverse women. They touted the typical feminist talking points at work: that we need to amplify voices of color, that we needed to encourage women to speak up since the STEM fields have supposedly shut out those voices for ages.