Shari Dunn, author of "Qualified: How Competency Checking and Race Collide at Work," joins Wealth host Brad Smith to examine the workplace challenges faced by Black Americans.
Dunn explains the concept of "competency checking" as "the ways in which Black people and people of color and, to some extent, women are required to meet a higher, harder bar in employment and retention," adding that "they have to prove what they know over and over and over again."
She highlights a concerning disconnect between educational achievements and career opportunities for people of color. "Competency checking is essentially the ways in which assumptions about our intelligence [and] assumptions about our qualifications act as a blockage preventing us to move forward.