16 Friday, Feburary 11, 1984 THE DETROIT JEWISH NEWS Study Says Executive Suite Discrimination Has Declined There's a new Cat in Mum! NEW YORK — Both Jewish and non-Jewish executives in some of America's top corporations generally agree that there is less discrimination against Jews in the corpo- rate world than there was in the past even though some Jewish executives still be- lieve that their Jewish iden- tification is a handicap, especially at higher execu- tive levels. Their research findings, based on the attitudes of 75 Harvard MBAs at Ameri- ca's leading corporations, are included in a new report issued by the American Jewish Committee. Entitled "Who Gets to the Top — Executive Suite Dis- crimination in the Eighties," the report was LINCOLN MARK VII CONTINENTAL COUGAR GRAND MARQUIS LYNX TOPAZ CAPRI MARQUIS VESLDON METZ 1250 Oakland Ave. (Dixie Hwy.) 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CI; . `Twinning' Hit 0C\ ( think there are too many who will become di- visional presidents be- cause I don't think many Jews are like this one man I know — he's so polished, such an upper- class person, there's no way to know he's Jewish." A Jewish respondent in Dr. Zweigenhaft's study conformed his view. A male 1980 Harvard MBA graduate, after denying that he had experienced any religious discrimination, re- flected: "I have been told by other Jews at my level that they have experienced in- tense anti-Semitism." Upon considering how he differed from these Jewish col- leagues, he observed: "If an individual is perceived as quite Jewish, in to Jewish social events, it may have a negative impact. Those who have moved faster in this company are the less visible Jews." "Our findings on social conformity and social cre- dentials," concluded Dr. Zweigenhaft, "suggest that the higher one gets in the corporation, the more a 'di- fferent background' be- comes a deterrent to promo- tion . . . and the more ap- parent are one's differences, the greater one's problems are likely to be." Turning to the problems faced by Jewish women in corporate America, Dr. Zweigenhaft said that all the Jewish women in his sample believed their sex to be a greater business hand- icap than their religion. However, he continued, "most Jewish women also believed that their religion was a factor, albeit a minor one, that could influence whether or not they ad- vanced in their companies." Among the problems that women face, noted Dr. Zweigenhaft, are stereotyped views about their abilities, com- panies' fears that women tend to leave jobs be- cause of family respon- sibilities, and the general tendency of corporation • executives to give prefer- ence to employees who fit the company "mold," which is usually white, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant and male. Dr. Zweigenhaft said also that his study found an im- portant difference between the situation of blacks and women and that of male Jews: an almost total ab- sence of women and blacks in senior corporation posi- tions. prepared by Dr. Richard L. Zweigenhaft, associate pro- fessor of psychology at Guil- ford College, in Greensboro, N.C. Dr. Zweigenhaft's study also finds that neither women nor blacks have be- come as integral a part of the corporate world as have some male Jews. While most non-Jewish executives in the study felt there was little or no bias against Jews in their corporations, a small number contended that at the top levels, being Jewish would hurt a per- son's chances. One non- Jewish respondent said that Jews had no prob- lems getting entry-level or middle-management jobs, but added: "I don't NEW YORK — Jersey City Mayor Gerald McCann, who announced on Dec. 7 that his city had "adopted" the Judean com- munity of Tekoah as its "twin city" in Israel, has come under sharp attack from the Arab Americ:- n Anti-Discrimination Com- mittee. CD