It's Hard Out There For Today's 'White Executive'

It's hard out there for a white man. That was the message communicated by John Allan, chairman of the British retail giant Tesco, at a recent Retail Week Live conference. White men, he said, are becoming an “endangered species” in top business jobs, forced to compete with women and minorities for key positions. In his speech to aspiring executives, Allan (who sits on a board made up of eight other white men and three white women) said that it's an “extremely propitious period” to be “female and from an ethnic background and preferably both.”