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This International Women's Day, let's do our bit to pledge for gender parity in the workplace and #BeBoldForChange.

Sunday night's black - clad demonstration was promoted by the recently formed Time's Up, an initiative of hundreds of women in the entertainment industry — including Streep, Williams, Dern and Winfrey — who have banded together to advocate for gender parity in executive ranks and provide legal defense aid for sexual harassment victims.

The annual party raises money for the organization's educational and philanthropic programs, as well as its advocacy for gender parity in show business.

Sunday night's black - clad demonstration was promoted by the recently formed Time's Up: an initiative of hundreds of women in the entertainment industry — including Streep, Williams, Dern and Winfrey — who have banded together to advocate for gender parity in executive ranks and legal defense aid for sexual harassment victims.

Sunday night's black - clad demonstration was promoted by the recently formed Time's Up, an initiative of hundreds of women in the entertainment industry — including Streep, Williams, Dern and Winfrey — who have banded together to advocate for gender parity in executive ranks and legal defence aid for sexual harassment victims.

Instead she thinks the call for gender parity in the film industry «creates separation.»

It is just one of a number of suggestions in the document, which includes an obligation for gender parity in the handing out of gongs and the option to award none.

Not exact matches

Ellis and partner Nikolay Djibankov use a strategy called Gender Lens Investment, which targets companies with at least three women on their boards of directors, in the creation of a so - called «parity portfolio» for clients.

Leaders have to be intentional about eliminating bias by ensuring that their hiring and promotion practices have clear policy and guidelines against it, and that there are checks and balances in place where salaries between genders are regularly reviewed for parity.

It's a small number, but it constitutes a success story in the battle for workplace gender parity.

Yet, at this pace, it will take four decades for Alcoa to achieve gender parity in its C - suite.

It's time for any organization with more than a perfunctory interest in gender parity to acknowledge the biases — often unconscious — that might be keeping qualified women from positions that ultimately go to men.

As for Trudeau, a self - declared feminist, the meeting squares nicely with the «gender parity matters» message that has underpinned his rhetoric since he awarded half his cabinet positions to women in 2015.

I wanted to document an unprecedented milestone in the tireless campaign for gender parity, and to also explain the long - term benefits to the business community that would come from a woman winning the top job in the world.

Intuit, for example, has vowed to get to gender parity by 2020, a commitment in line with its support for organizations like Girls Who Code.

Quebec's Liberal government adopted the requirement in 2011 that boards of state - owned enterprises include an equal number of women and men, thereby legislating «gender parity» for that group.

Founded on the premise that advancing the full talent pool will make Canada's tech industry the strongest and most inclusive in the world, #movethedial believes the opportunity for gender parity exists at a global level.

There are new offerings, like Calvert Foundation's Women Investing in Women Initiative for fixed income and the PAX Ellevate Global Women's Index Fund or Morgan Stanley's Parity Portfolio for public equities, and initiatives like The Women Effect bringing a new community together to accelerate deployment of interested capital into gender - lens investment opportunities.

In support of International Women's Day, Australia's largest digital women's network, With Her In Mind Network (WHIMN), joins the call to #PressForProgress for gender parity.

For example, gender wage parity in a trade agreement may be a noble goal, but it rings hollow when there is no gender wage parity in Canada today.

3 Principles for Hiring a More Diverse Team How a little fintech company achieved gender parity (66 % women in our executive team; 53 % women in our company), established 100 % paid leave policies for mothers and fathers, and is working even harder toward better diversity.

Under Title IX, to achieve gender parity between men's and women's sports, universities and colleges have to meet one of three different requirements: 1) equity in participation opportunities for both men and women; 2) scholarships offered proportionally based on the number of male and female athletes; and 3) comparable overall treatment of women's and men's sports (including but not limited to quality and maintenance of locker rooms and facilities, equipment and supplies, access to practice fields, publicity of teams and events, the quality of coaching, academic tutoring, traveling budgets, etc.).

Nearly 45 years after Title IX was passed, we are still asking why it is so hard for schools to create gender parity in sports.

The statement added that the lack of free sanitary towels for schoolgirls «can impact negatively on the Free SHS programme,» explaining that: «As poor menstrual hygiene management can result in absenteeism, poor performance, hamper gender parity in education and the overall achievement of the Free Senior High School programme.»

At 9 a.m., City & State hosts a Gender Parity Summit, highlighting how last year provided a wake - up call for gender roles and responsibilities in the workplace across all industries, Manny Cantor Center, 197 E. Broadway, ManhGender Parity Summit, highlighting how last year provided a wake - up call for gender roles and responsibilities in the workplace across all industries, Manny Cantor Center, 197 E. Broadway, Manhgender roles and responsibilities in the workplace across all industries, Manny Cantor Center, 197 E. Broadway, Manhattan.

Some of the bills passed this year that he mentioned include a state ban on bump stocks, reform of the state's parole system, gender parity in pay and fairness for victims of sexual assault.

He praised his government for achieving 97 per cent in school enrolment including a gender parity ratio of 1:1 for boys and girls.

For 21 in ’21 to achieve its ambitious goal of electing 21 women to the Council and, ultimately, achieving gender parity in the city's legislature, women from every community and neighborhood in the five boroughs are going to have to step up and become candidates.

And while there are still slightly more men than females participating in the games this year, this statistic is a push in the right direction, for gender parity and sports — especially considering that it was only in 2012 that women were granted access to participate in every Olympic sport.

The proposed fix is a «gender parity stamp» that scores and approves content as balanced, a mentoring program for entry - to - mid-level females in the industry and an ambassador program to continue dialogues within studios and networks.

A spokesperson said in a statement: «Gadot broke through this year as a powerful voice advocating for women, not only on screen as the iconic Wonder Woman, but in life as well, using her platform to encourage those in the entertainment industry and beyond to strive for fairness and parity across genders.»

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The Women at Sundance program aims to support women artists at the forefront of storytelling, providing a pipeline for female film and theatre makers and making progress toward achieving gender parity in film and theatre.

«The need for gender parity and gender diversity in the movie industry is patently clear, and the time to stop sexual harassment in all industries is now.

«The need for gender parity and greater diversity in the movie industry is patently clear.

A new study, released by the Women's Media Center in time for the 67th Primetime Emmys (Sept. 20), shows that the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has a tarnished record when it comes to gender parity in the creative categories of writing (6), directing (8), editing (10), and producing (20)-- categories that cover jobs that have the most influence on what is depicted on the small screen.

Measures include: an «unconscious bias» educator to work with companies on developing content that represents everyone, a «gender parity stamp» that scores and approves content as balanced, a mentoring program for entry - to - mid-level females in the industry and an ambassador program to continue dialogues within studios and networks.

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Below, ideas for learning about black history and the Kentucky Derby; exploring historical connections to a disaster in Bangladesh; and arguing ideas of gender parity via a piece about street - naming in Berlin.

And yet, at our country's current rate, it will take more than 75 years for us to reach gender parity in the superintendent position.

Harvard U. Achieves Gender Parity in Junior Faculty Hires Inside Higher Ed, 4/10/15» «Over the past several years, Harvard, like many institutions, has worked diligently to diversify its faculty at all levels,» Judith D. Singer, Harvard's senior vice provost for faculty development and diversity and James Bryant Conant Professor of Education, said via email.

Striving to address gender parity, Mark and his team are working with schools and communities in marginalised areas to increase access for girls, ensure their retention and improve their learning outcomes.

Machin said he thinks there's broad support in Canada for gender - parity but acknowledged that it can take a long time to change a board's makeup for various reasons, including the desire for stability and the right set of skills among directors.

Lucille Sive, CEO of The Travel Corporation's (TTC's) Africa Division promotes gender parity in her home country, South Africa, by supporting sustainable economic growth for disadvantaged women.

However, in the last decade, for both judges and nominees, gender parity has been achieved.

Please join us for a Movies that Matter Special Screening of Battle of the Sexes, the powerful new film that celebrates female empowerment and gender parity, on Tuesday, November 14 at 7:00 PM in the Otis College Forum.

In our office we push for gender parity and we still have to make sure that it's really clear.