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Anna Bawden and Alexandra Topping

Most women of colour ‘hide’ their heritage due to UK workplace racism

Three-quarters of women of colour have experienced some form of racism at work.
Three-quarters of women of colour have experienced some form of racism at work. Photograph: Radius Images/Alamy

Women of colour feel forced to change their behaviour, and in many cases their names, because of widespread, structural racism in the workplace, new research has found.

Three-quarters of women of colour have experienced some form of racism at work, while just over a quarter have faced racial slurs, according to a significant report by the gender equality organisation the Fawcett Society, and the race equality thinktank the Runnymede Trust.

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