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Asian-Americans are 18 percent of the Harvard enrollment, 24 percent at Stanford, and a whopping 46 percent at the University of California-Berkeley.<\/strong> Academic pedigrees like that typically vault graduates into the upper echelon of the U.S. workforce.<\/p>\n

But a national study released today by the Center for Work-Life Policy says that Asian-Americans \u2014 5 percent of the U.S. population and the nation\u2019s fastest-growing minority by percentage \u2014 hold less than 2 percent of top corporate jobs.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The study analyzed chief executive officer, chief financial officer, chief operating officer and other top executive positions in Fortune 500 companies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Researchers, supported by Deloitte, Goldman Sachs, Pfizer and Time Warner, conducted 2,952 surveys of working-aged men and women and gathered qualitative and quantitative data. They concluded that many Asian-Americans, whether immigrant or native born, find it hard to \u201cfit in\u201d the upper management ranks.<\/strong><\/p>\n

According to the report, it\u2019s not necessarily that they\u2019re victims of discrimination. It\u2019s that Asian-Americans don\u2019t toot their own horns, don\u2019t flourish in American-style networking and office politics, and may struggle with communication.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThe Asian culture is that you work hard on your own, and the belief is that you\u2019ll be recognized based on your work,\u201d said Joel Ma, who was born in Hong Kong and now works in global procurement at Kansas City-based Hallmark Cards Inc. \u201cBut western culture is more about whether you\u2019re assertive enough.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new report, \u201cAsians in America: Unleashing the Potential of the \u2018Model Minority,\u2019?\u201d finds that Caucasian-Americans generally don\u2019t perceive workplace bias against Asian-Americans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

They see the minority\u2019s strong academic and hiring records and think everything is fine.<\/strong> Or they see successful business leaders such as Min Kao, co-founder of Olathe-based Garmin, who leads a $3 billion business.<\/p>\n

But 25 percent of Asians said they had felt workplace discrimination because of their ethnicity, according to researchers at the non-profit think tank, which studies diversity and talent management.<\/p>\n

And Asian men, more than any other demographic, said they felt stalled in their careers and were more likely to quit their current jobs to search for advancement elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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