Leadership Development of Women of Color in Occupational Therapy: A Qualitative Intersectional Analysis

CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE: Leadership development for women of color in occupational therapy thrives at the intersection of scholarship, mentorship, and authentic inclusion. What This Article Adds: The study expands leadership inquiry in occupational therapy to include the perspectives of women of color and to better understand the patterns of social identity categories in leadership achievement. Positionality Statement: The term women of color is a political designation coined in the 1970s by women in the minority to define solidarity with other oppressed women (Zavella, 2022). The term women of color is used to achieve a unified political voice to seek gender equality for women who feel unsupported by White feminist ideology (Zavella, 2022). Moreover, it describes multicultural and multiethnic solidarity among women who sit outside the structures of power and privilege and experience life at the intersection of gender and race. Thus, women of color include Black, Latinx, Asian, Pacific Islander, mixed-race women, and Native American women, including American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian women (McKinsey & Company, 2022).PMID:37999423 | DOI:10.5014/ajot.2023.050331
Source: The American Journal of Occupational Therapy - Category: Occupational Health Authors: Source Type: research