Sentences with phrase «for gender equity»

If you want to advocate for gender equity in the workplace, you need to be smart in how you go about it.

There wasn?t always an institution like the Center for Gender Equity at UCSF.

Tarana Burke (a guest of Michelle Williams), who currently serves as the senior director at Girls for Gender Equity.

The symposium, called Women Leaders 2002, was coordinated by the Center for Gender Equity at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and was the third leadership conference devoted solely to topics concerning working women in the UC system.

She said, however, that like in many other places, the struggle for gender equity continues, and Jordan has begun implementing initiatives, for instance, to keep more talented women in the workforce after they graduate.

The day is billed as one of protest and advocacy for gender equity organized by the activists behind the Jan. 21 Women's March on Washington.

But more importantly, such stories suggest that America's biggest corner offices are a haven for gender equity — which does not appear to be the case.

By placing more women in management roles, does it really pave a way for gender equity at work?

The issue of hiring quotas — as in, «50 % of our hires must be women» — are controversial, even among strident proponents for gender equity.

One tangible result of this leadership shift in philanthropy has been more attention and more money for gender equity and women's empowerment issues in recent years.

Premier John Horgan set the tone for gender equality in B.C. by appointing 11 women to his 22 - member cabinet, and on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, appointed Esquimalt - Metchosin MLA Mitzi Dean as Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Equity.

That's why UTZ and Coffee Quality Institute's Partnership for Gender Equity are motivating change in the Nicaraguan coffee industry.

But once the referee is gone and the consent decree is no longer the guiding document, Title IX will still be in effect and Quinnipiac, under federal law, must continue to strive for gender equity among its student athletes.

«It seems like they keep pushing the finish line for women,» said Melissa Silverstein, founder and publisher of Women and Hollywood, an advocacy website for gender equity in the film industry.

she proclaims, a signal cry for gender equity that drives and electrifies the movie.

Although Levi probably won't take home gold later this month — «La La Land» composer Justin Hurwitz is the frontrunner having already nabbed the Golden Globe for Best Original Score earlier this year — her presence in a category otherwise dominated by more well - known male composers with numerous films and nominations under their belts is a wonderful sign for gender equity.

Earlier this year, for example, her team approved funding for a gender equity project in Argentina that supports girls as they transition from school to work.

Together, this partnership has garnered the latest thinking in digital technology for education such as, digital innovation and creativity; computational thinking; advances in STEM; the use of digital technology to promote higher order thinking skills; support for gender equity, and equality of access.

This is why we are launching SponsHER, a venture that pushes for gender equity at the most senior levels of the largest and leading school districts, charter management organizations, and nonprofits.

Therefore educators and policy makers in the Arab world should communicate these concepts pragmatically as well as theoretically, starting with formulating a new vision for education in the Arab World, a deep and continuous revision of their curriculums, setting standards for equal chances in professional development, and making serious efforts in creating an educational philosophy not only for gender equity, but rather for human justice.

Shortly after the 2016 presidential election, a group of attorneys helped the NWLC create the Legal Network for Gender Equity, which is now active in all 50 states.

She also co-chaired the ABA's Toolkit for Gender Equity in Partner Compensation, an initiative of the ABA

A key feature of all processes involved in establishing the National Congress was the agreed requirement for gender equity.

Joanne N. Smith, founder of Girls for Gender Equity, was more blunt about why young women's issues seemed to take a backseat in the national discussion to men's issues.

This spurred the opening of the UCSF Women?s Resource Center in 1984, which in turn evolved into the Center for Gender Equity in 1999.

Alongside Chastain, the magazine also has quotes from Molly Bloom herself, Aaron Sorkin, Idris Elba and Melissa Silverstein, founder of Women and Hollywood, an initiative that advocates for gender equity in the

The struggle for gender equity has caused some change, but some things in our Midwest still exist... bias, prejudice, religious disconnections — sometimes hooded, but still in place.

Also at noon, Urban Youth Collaborative, Desis Rising Up and Moving, The Point, Girls for Gender Equity, and Rockaway Youth Task Force are joined by NYC Councilman Antonio Reynoso to protest what they describe as «the unrelenting over-policing of students of color in New York City,» City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Joanne Smith, executive director of the group Girls for Gender Equity and a co-chair of the Young Women's Initiative, said women had implored Mr. Obama and Mr. de Blasio to include them, but neither had.

Des Jarlais plans to work closely with CACSW, the Postdoctoral Scholars Association, and the Center for Gender Equity.

«Science is thought to be an equalizing career, but it is important to address whether it really is,» said Quita Bingham, special projects coordinator at the Center for Gender Equity (CGE).

Like the Center for Gender Equity, groups like CACSW and PSA are always looking to recruit people interested in helping with programs and policy development.

The exhibition at Knockdown Center is accompanied by «STAY NASTY,» a series of performances and events this weekend with ticket sales benefitting Callen - Lorde Community Health Center, the New York Immigration Coalition, Girls for Gender Equity, and SisterSong.

The central struggle in this century will be for gender equity.