She is passionate
about diversity as she believes that every relationship is a cross-cultural and transpersonal experience.
Living in a predominantly white community means that my child is not often exposed to children or families of color, thus I spend time thinking
about diversity as it is represented in other sources of «input,» like books and media.
He encourages legal leaders, judges, and policy - makers to think
about diversity as integral to access to justice.
She has spoken at legal conferences and top law schools
about diversity as well as many other cutting - edge issues affecting the legal market.
It has to be
about diversity as just one step towards transforming the systemic injustices that structure all our lives, and the lives of our communities, and the lives of the most marginalized of clients and friends.
We're going to have to talk
about diversity as the community grows and gets more diverse, and we need to make sure everyone is as welcome as possible.
Not exact matches
Anyone who's read or heard anything
about diversity in tech is familiar with the pipeline problem: the fact that women and under - represented minorities don't pursue STEM degrees at the same rate
as men.
As we keep reading and learning
about best practices to foster gender
diversity, we realize that there is no definitive answer.
Camara gave a concise speech
about the importance of
diversity at Slack
as she accepted the award.
General Motors is
about unity and inclusion and so am I. Recent events, particularly those in Charlottesville, Virginia, and its aftermath, require that we come together
as a country and reinforce values and ideals that unite us - tolerance, inclusion and
diversity — and speak against those which divide us — racism, bigotry and any politics based on ethnicity.
These days, many people do a good job talking
about diversity, but not
as good a job at bringing it
about.
For me, «playing in my lane» means using my position
as PwC's chairman and senior partner to drive conversations
about race and
diversity, to drive change and ask the hard questions within PwC and the profession in which we compete, and to have the discussion with other CEOs and corporate leaders.
Leaders think
about the point of having
diversity as a check - the - box thing, instead of a powerful business opportunity.
«I gave them [the LPs] some actionable advice, like, don't sign a nondisclosure agreement
as part of your investment, and ask questions
about how they [the VCs] treat
diversity or whether or not they have a female partner,» says Wang.
For Atlassian, the Australian maker of workplace software, evaluating the
diversity of its workforce isn't only
about absolute numbers and ratios across the company — it's also
about ensuring the
diversity of
as many of the company's individual teams
as possible.
Science itself can drive our conversations
about the importance of
diversity,
as it provides us with the data to understand how systemic bias and discrimination impact our communities and how best to change it.»
And what I hate is that women are always asked the question
about diversity, and if you're one of the few women in the room, you feel obligated to raise it
as an issue, when you would rather far often talk
about the economics of something.
We talk
about the importance of
diversity, but if
diversity means having the same political views
as the CEO, we're doomed to a very un-diverse business.
Almost half of respondents said they cared more
about diversity after the election and one in four reported that they changed their own workplace behavior
as a result.
She's used her platform
as an industry leader to talk
about the need for
diversity and inclusion in the cryptocurrency space, a subject that is close to her heart — and one that runs in the family.
In a recently resurfaced 2016 article from The Atlantic, award - winning director Ava DuVernay talked
about how
diversity goals that simply focus on increasing the number of employees who don't identify
as straight, white, and male can ring hollow for members of underrepresented groups with their own unique identities.
Aspect's Theresia Gouw talks with Techonomics
about investing in tech, taking risks and what she sees
as the good news
about diversity in Silicon Valley.
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We talked
about those tech areas, some newer arenas Aspect is eyeing such
as artificial intelligence, voice, and blockchain —
as well
as issues such
as international competition,
diversity, potential effects of trade sanctions on startups, and the changing nature of entrepreneurs themselves.
As an investment opportunity, gender
diversity is
about identifying the ways in which achieving that balance may drive positive financial outcomes.
But here we have one rule
about corporate
diversity that's so vaguely written
as to be nearly meaningless for increasing the number of women in leadership.
As of now, 13 percent of companies currently give specific details
about the race and gender of directors named in their annual filings, said Belen Gomez, senior director of research at Equilar Inc., which tracks
diversity disclosure.
Given the
diversity of views
about the definition of scalability, perhaps it is best thought of
as a phenomena where «you know it when you see it.»
For the last two years or so, I've been speaking out
about diversity and immigration
as key drivers of Canada's prosperity.
Pax and Ellevate came together to form Pax Ellevate Management because they share the same vision
about the critical role that gender
diversity plays in business success over time,
as well
as the investment opportunity associated with investing in women.
As we work to improve our company cultures, I hope next year we hear a different story in Silicon Valley, one
about greater
diversity making the tech industry even stronger and more innovative.
Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of
diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,»
diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,»
as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas
about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?
From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience
about religious
diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments
as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»
When television came in
about 1950, each of these «faith groups» was given time each Sunday for their TV programs — programs which were broadly representative of the religious and cultural
diversity of the country
as a whole.
But, over the years, the congregation did, in fact, become more diverse, and by the time I had been there for 12 years, there were maybe 50 gay and lesbian persons, there were
about 30 Hispanic individuals, there were a number of African Americans and African natives, and there was other
diversity as well; and we talked a lot
about how pleased we were that this was all happening.
The single paragraph devoted to Christian Immigrants by Eck in her much - noticed book A New Religious America obscures the fact that the new immigration is bringing
about not so much a new
diversity among American religions
as diversity within America's majority religion.
Unity in
diversity is a lofty goal and requires candor
about what separates
as well
as what joins us; an arabesque begins with the integrity of its smallest parts.
Indeed, some high - flying, abstract, and vague talk of pluralism seems to assume the validity of a thorough relativism
about these
diversities («each variation - culturally, religiously, morally, or intellectually — is
as good and true
as any of the others»).
Related to the litmus test comments — How
about this litmus test: if you don't accept evolution
as the only rational explanation for the
diversity of life on Earth you can not run for office.
This kind of broad association is of particular value to a society like ours, one in which people are increasingly tribalized and segregated and even a laudable value like
diversity can be trivialized,
as when a mother brags
about how her child attends such a «wonderfully diverse» prep school, what with the boy from Senegal whose dad is a UN diplomat and the girl from Sri Lanka whose mom is an officer with the World Bank.
Newbigin is absolutely right that Christianity, or at any rate Christian mission and apologetics, is always involved in a pluralist tension — the tension between confidence in God and uncertainty
about living out that truth in the world, between faith
as God's gift and understanding
as a form of growing discovery, between knowing who God is and seeking to bring that knowledge into situations of despair or resistance, not to say anything
about the
diversity and conflict of views among self - avowed Christians.
We must learn to celebrate such
diversity, and to use such polarities
as the context for conversation which corrects our legalisms and informs us
about the whole truth of the matter.
In this regard it is clear that moral education, even in its
diversity and its oppositions, is more a story
about the legitimation of American culture than it is
about its transformation;
as in every generation in America, the substance of moral education has reflected the central assumptions and ideals of the prevailing zeitgeist.
What do you think
about the Scriptures in 1 corinthians where it talks
about their being a
diversity of spiritual gifts, and that not everyone will recieve the gift of prophecy, or the gift of speaking in tongues, or the gift of teaching, but God distributes these gifts
as He wills.
The Alliance was self - conscious
about its «catholicity»
as well
as its cultural
diversity.
It is
about supporting a system of sustainable agricultural management that promotes soil health and fertility through the use of such methods
as crop rotation and cover cropping, which nourish plants, foster species
diversity, help combat climate change, prevent damage to valuable water resources, and protect farmers and farmersâ $ ™ families from exposure to harmful chemicals.
Concerns have been raised
about the potential effects of transgenic introductions on the genetic
diversity of crop landraces and wild relatives in areas of crop origin and diversification,
as this
diversity is considered essential for global food security.
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