From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation:

The quiet pain of prejudice that black women feel looking for work in Toronto

‘We are often not the ones who are chosen and we know why.’

Shanifa Nasser · CBC News · Posted: Nov 05, 2016 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: November 5, 2016

Sheena Blake can still remember the feeling in the pit of her stomach when she was offered the job.

At first she thought she had beat out the other candidates, but she soon learned that she was on top of the list for a different, much more insidious reason.

“Someone asked me to work for them so they could meet their quota of having a multicultural space,” Blake told CBC News.

That was years ago. But it’s just one example of the countless quiet, hidden abuses that she says happen daily to black women, especially when it comes to the workplace.

It’s a feeling that’s borne out by a 2011 report from the Wellesley Institute, by Sheila Block and Grace-Edward Galabuzi, called Canada’s Colour-Coded Labour Market. According to the report, black women in Canada make 37 per cent less than white men, and 15 per cent less than white women. And those are just the ones who get jobs.

​Studies in the U.S. and Canada reveal that job applicants with ethnic-sounding names are less likely to get a response than those with Anglo-Saxon names, despite having the same experience and credentials. …