HRM 3450 Study Guide - Asian Americans, Glass Ceiling, Japanese Canadians

• School: York University
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM 3450
• Professor: Ron Ophir

Document Summary

Bell (2012), chapter 6, identity group: asians/asian americans. Asian women earn less than asian men in every earnings category. Asian immigrant women are particularly likely in family owned businesses, computer manufacturing, and garment industry, retail industries like clothing and health and personal care stores. Asian women occupy lower-paid, lower status positions and experience discrimination in these industries. Asian women have successful careers such as indra nooyi, president and chief financial officer of pepsico. During the 1880-1918 canada imposed a head tax on chinese immigrants. Asian immigrants was to be repeated during wwii, the only difference was the target this time was the japanese canadians. The head tax was intended to slow the arrival of chinese and soon after the japanese. This tax did however not slow the influx of chinese, thus the tax was increased to per person in: the chinese are credited with having made a huge contribution to the building of.