Sentences with phrase «young women and minority»

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Contact with women and ethnic minorities lessens unconscious bias, but since neither group is represented much in the upper echelons of business, it can be hard for executives to get that exposure — something not helped by the fact that many white, male higher - ups feel they don't know how to talk to younger women or minorities.

That includes funding programs that teach STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) to young people in underserved areas, collaborating with higher education institutions, investing in women and minority - owned companies and creating bolder hiring and retention incentives and programs to encourage diversity within Intel.

Specifically, Republicans and other political observers insisted the Obama campaign would not be able to turn out minorities, women, and young voters in numbers that matched the 2008 campaign.

That said, the «face of franchising» is changing, with more women, minorities and younger people entering the business daily.»

Factor Funding Company is dedicated to providing cash flow to young and growing small to medium size businesses including start - ups, minorities, and women - owned businesses.

Our focus is on young and growing companies including start - ups, minority, and women - owned businesses that sell goods and / or services on terms to other credit - worthy and reputable businesses (private or public and local, state, and federal government agencies).

As well as increasing the number of black and minority ethnic (BAME) clergy, the church also wants to attract more women and younger people.

The basis of the role model concept in sporting contexts is the belief that young people, women, and members of disadvantaged minorities simply lack imagination - they can't picture themselves as «winners.»

Gestational weight gain and subsequent postpartum weight loss among young, low - income, ethnic minority women

Fewer people are hunting, younger people are less interested in gun ownership and the gun industry has had little success in its attempts to appeal to women and minorities.

Headline figures can also disguise other complexities, such as the prevalence of unemployment amongst ethnic minorities, women, disabled people, young people, and people who have been unemployed for long periods of time.

As with many Tory policies, it's people in the north, the young, ethnic minorities and women who are particularly badly affected.

She fared well with minorities and women during the primary race, but she fell short among the younger voters who flocked to Sanders and are fond of Warren.

As a young man, Jiménez found kindred spirits in like - minded men and women who were committed to the causes of liberation and independence for Puerto Rico — and sought freedom from what they perceived to be the racist and discriminatory treatment minority residents faced in major urban centers such as Chicago and New York.

Turnout among minority voters and younger voters could affect the result in a district here or there, but an increase in suburban turnout or a substantial shift by suburban voters (especially suburban women) from the Republicans to the Democrats could have a much broader impact on the fight for control of the House.

Specified Associated Organisations (SAOs) review and input policies, representing groups including: ethnic minorities (EMLD), [169] women (WLD), [170] the LGBT community (LGBT + Liberal Democrats), [171] youth and students (Young Liberals), engineers and scientists (ALDES), [172] parliamentary candidates (PCA)[173] and local councillors (ALDC).

Margot James, who is minister for small businesses and is responsible for corporate responsibility, said: «Toby Young is worthy of his appointment but it is a mistake for him to belittle sexist comments by labelling them «politically incorrect», a term frequently used to dismiss unacceptable comments about, and behaviour towards, women and minorities.»

Unfortunately, the Commission's proposal would further disenfranchise young people, women, the poor and minorities.

Other goals cited including raising the minimum wage, enacting the DREAM Act, expanding universal pre-Kindergarten to include three - year - olds, increasing the number of state contracts awarded to minority and women - owned businesses and incentivizing employers to hire young men and women of color.

Much of the report he helped write focuses on the party's need to appeal to younger voters, women and minorities — and soften its rhetoric in order to do so.

There are extremely qualified young women and men out there from minority communities.

Trump... remains deeply unpopular among minorities, women and younger voters — just the kind of voters Democrats need to win House seats in swing districts....

«The vast majority of young Asian men are fine, but there's a minority who do not behave properly towards white women and sweeping it under the carpet will only make matters worse,» she said.

«The current UK policy of recommending women take folic acid supplements has failed and has also led to health inequalities among ethnic minorities and younger women.

But as scientific director, she has taken a serious interest in programs for women, underrepresented minorities, and young scientists.

Young scientists today are engaged in improving graduate and postdoctoral education, making science more hospitable to women and minorities, and interacting with Congress on issues of funding and professional development.

Perhaps her most significant and lasting accomplishment is the vastly increased opportunities she fostered for talented young people, including women and minorities, to study science.

Speakers and participants discussed such issues as the preparation of young scientists with training suitable to global challenges, the inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities to gather insights and innovations that might otherwise be missed, supporting scientists everywhere throughout the world, and ensuring that scientists can do science in a globally connected way without serious obstacles due to differences in standards or ethics.

I think it's incredibly important that young scientists — and in particular women and underrepresented minorities in science — have the opportunity to be involved in such an inspiring event.

We call for an equitable participation of women, young scientists, and minority groups in the practice and application of science, also through capacity - building programmes addressed to young scientists.

The films In America (2002), «Morvern Callar» (2002), Minority Report (2002) and Code 46 (2003) may all be very different, but in each of them Samantha Morton has given a masterful performance as a vulnerable young woman who has lost a loved one.

Based on a Pulitzer Prize - nominated play by Jordan Harrison, Marjorie Prime is a small - scale sci - fi meditation on mortality and memory, with Lois Smith (Minority Report) as an elderly woman who recreates her former husband, digitizing his existence and interacting with the hologram of his younger self (played by Jon Hamm).

A key goal of the MOBILIZE: LDN programme is to drive diversity in the workplace — encouraging more women, and young people form the Black Asian Minority Ethnic (BAME) community, to enter the sector.

This also means expanding opportunities for high - quality education — from greater access to Advanced Placement courses to the expansion of high - quality charter schools — so that children from poor and minority households, especially young black men and women who did the worst on NAEP this year (and have less access to college - preparatory courses in traditional districts) can succeed in school and in life.

The 52 - page report along wrongfully perpetuates a century - old philosophy — that poor and minority kids aren't capable of high - quality, college - level education — that is condemning far too many young men and women to poverty and prison.

In other words: in coming decades, more and more white Americans will find themselves more and more a demonstrably minority population, and much like the young woman I met in Hawai'i in the mid-1990s, they are uncomfortable with that and often down right fearful.

She is taking pitches for the following fiction genres: romance, fantasy, science fiction, mystery / thriller / suspense, horror, young adult, middle grade, literary fiction, new adult, graphic novels, women's fiction, upmarket fiction, and novels / books by and about people from marginalized perspectives (such as LGBT people and / or racial minorities).

Further, mass - market paperback and e-book formats provide an entry point into publishing for new voices of every kind: women writers, writers of color and ethnic minorities, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender writers, young writers, and writers who are creating new genres.

As we all know, the people who write on the Internet about comics are a tiny, tiny, tiny portion of the audience, and while they often clamor for diversity and Marvel responds to them, is there a large influx of young women, minorities, queer, and trans people going into comics shops and buying those diverse titles or at least getting them digitally or in trade?

Under his leadership, the NAS focused on increasing the number of women, minorities, and younger scientists elected to its membership.

It will support an educational campaign to capture the imagination of young people who can help us meet the energy challenge, and will create research opportunities for undergraduates and educational opportunities for women and minorities who too often have been underrepresented in scientific and technological fields, but are no less capable of inventing the solutions that will help us grow our economy and save our planet.

Democrats have also increasingly come to depend upon young people, women, and minorities, who make up a growing proportion of eligible voters.

Member, Texas Young Lawyers Association Member, Houston Bar Association Minorities in the Legal Profession Committee and Litigation Section Member, Houston Bar Association Communities in Schools Committee Member, Association of Women Attorneys — Houston Member, Middle Eastern Lawyers Association Member, Christian Legal Society Member, Women's Energy Network of Houston Member, Trademark Committee, State Bar of Texas Co-Chair, Houston Young Lawyers Association Diversity Committee

We may generalize about younger lawyers, women, minorities, and other groups in order to create policies and programs, but efforts to increase engagement must take into account each associate's individual motivators, development needs, personal circumstances, and career goals.

Lynn Thurber, chairman of LaSalle Investment Management and a member of the boards of Duke Realty Corp. (NYSE: DRE) and Acadia Realty Trust (NYSE: AKR), agrees that boards are now looking for younger members, while more specific effort is being made to find women and minority candidates.