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17 Career Books for Black Women to Help Them Level Up Professionally

17 Career Books for Black Women to Help Them Level Up Professionally

Whether you’re trying to find more balance in your life, explore your purpose, combat bias in the workplace, or work your way to the C-suite—this list is for you. Each of these black women authors have the experience of navigating the world and the workplace as black women who have had to get to the core of who they are in order to experience success as defined by themselves.

Tracking Minority Contracting

All told, the agencies allocated nearly $700 million in providing new contracts to minority and women firms in 2011 out of a total of about $3.8 billion spent with all contractors. The FDIC by far invested the most at $416.5 million, representing 29.8% of the $1.4 billion total contracts awarded. The U.S. Department of the Treasury spent $50 million with minority-owned businesses, 20% of total contracts with more than half awarded to black-owned firms and $26 million with women-owned firms, in fiscal year 2011. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency dispensed more than a combined $66 million to both groups, or 38.4% of OCC’s total spend.

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