Sentences with phrase «add women and minorities»

Unless you have a reasonable argument that finding more ways to add women and minorities to the pool from which worthy candidates get chosen to lead baseball teams is going to harm the game.

Big private equity firms are vying to add women and minorities to their male - dominated workplaces as they expand beyond buyouts into larger, multifaceted money managers.

Not exact matches

Diversity is a goal of many governments, as minority - and women - owned businesses provide unique perspectives and add to local economies in ways that traditional businesses often overlook.

Simply put we are adding «Best Value» procedures and raising the threshold before bonding is required to assist small, minority and women - owned businesses in competing for public works contracts.

Indeed, the measure includes other add - ons, like a mandate for developers to try to work with women - and minority - owned businesses.

We embrace development if minority, women and small businesses in Harlem benefit accordingly,» Dunbar added, citing Morgan's criticism of Columbia's Manhattanville campus expansion project.

He added his group did offer to include minority and women - owned business enterprises in contracting opportunities with project employees with their sames wages and benefits, as well as cost - saving measures.

As I stated before, there is not much new information that can be added to the subject of the status of underrepresented minorities and women in science.

said Hockfield, adding that supporting women and underrepresented minorities in science is crucial, because studies have dem - onstrated the importance of different perspectives in finding solutions to problems.

But, she pointedly adds, these «objective» cutoffs disproportionately exclude from the sciences members of underrepresented groups, including women and non-Asian racial minorities, who, on average, do less well than white and Asian men on the GRE, especially on the all - important math section.

Persistent obstacles toward those goals include inadequate funding for R&D, underrepresentation of women and minorities in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, and widespread misunderstanding of science, he added.

I'd even add that it's worth it just for the scene where everything screeches to a halt for a couple of minutes while Joe delivers an impassioned, vein - popping progressive screed about how all you rich white guys better watch out, because the United States is a confidence game cooked for the ruling class and one day poor, downtrodden minorities and women will rise up and take what's theirs.

That means, for a contemporary drama, approximately 50 percent women, 50 percent minority, 20 percent people with disabilities and five percent LGBTQ, she added.

Adding to the national debate over affirmative action, the U.S. Supreme Court declined last week to review a municipal policy that set goals for the inclusion of minority and women contractors in construction projects.

In the same vein, shows like Fresh off the Boat and Insecure are making the lives of minorities more mundane and mainstream, brushing off anachronisms like Long Duk Dong from Sixteen Candles and adding fresh, strong female relationships between black women.