Through interviews with 29 Asian American women tech workers, this article demonstrates how cultural frameworks around race and gender shape identity salience and construct a token process for workers with multiple subordinate identities. This approach to tokenism better accounts for multiple systems of inequality affecting workers and demonstrate how certain identities are prioritized—and others neglected—through institutional interventions and cultural ideologies. It also provides an additional lens through which to interpret the emphasis on gender inequality within the high-tech industry: Whereas gender inequality is generally considered a critical step in achieving an equitable work environment, I consider how it is intentionally leveraged within organizations to divert from interventions toward establishing racial equality. Results suggest serious barriers preventing the high-tech industry from reckoning with racial inequality for Asian American women workers; more broadly, they hint at how other racial groups with white-adjacent privileges are similarly exploited to uphold the high-tech industry’s white racial project.

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为具有多重从属身份的女性处理性别问题，取消种族令牌流程


通过对 29 名亚裔美国女性科技工作者的采访，本文展示了围绕种族和性别的文化框架如何塑造身份显着性，并为具有多重从属身份的员工构建象征性流程。这种象征主义的方法更好地解释了影响工人的多种不平等制度，并展示了如何通过制度干预和文化意识形态优先考虑某些身份，而其他身份则被忽视。它还提供了一个额外的视角来解释高科技行业内对性别不平等的重视：虽然性别不平等通常被认为是实现公平工作环境的关键一步，但我认为组织内部如何有意利用性别不平等来转移人们对性别不平等的关注。旨在建立种族平等的干预措施。结果表明，高科技行业存在严重障碍，无法正视亚裔美国女工的种族不平等问题；更广泛地说，它们暗示了其他拥有与白人相邻的特权的种族群体如何同样被利用来维护高科技产业的白人种族项目。