The Four Axes of Covering

The four axes of covering are appearance, affiliation, advocacy and association. A woman can't do anything to pass rit, but she can cover by making her gender less salient by not talking about her children. So a veteran might refrain from challenging a joke about the military less to be seen as overleas strident. And so what we found was that 61 % of people reported covering along at least one of these dimensions. That included 83% of elgib t individuals, 79%) of black respondents, 66%. Of women, all the way to forty five percent of straight white men. The data suggests some groups still experiencing greater head winds than others.