Sentences with phrase «for hiring more women»

TOKYO — A government advisory committee has suggested that Japan's publicly supported universities and labs set targets for hiring more women and that the government monitor their progress and publicize the results.

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A 2015 study found that women who applied for professorships in STEM areas (excluding economics) were more likely to be hired than similarly qualified male candidates.

Retention of diverse employees is also a focus for Saujani, who noted that while tech companies like SpaceX now have more gender balance among interns and young hires, they do a poor job maintaining it: 30 - 40 % of women leave quickly.

«Hiring women isn't just the right thing for companies to do — it's more profitable... and creates greater shareholder value,» Smith said.

It's been more than two years since Facebook and others in tech committed to hiring more women and underrepresented people of color, and so far, there is very little to show for it.

He now sees a strong business case for hiring women: «They are very productive, very conscientious, and very much on time... We're looking for more.»

He'd like to increase military spending, sign free trade deals with other Asian countries, make it easier for companies to hire and fire workers, change immigration laws, get more women in the labour force and much more.

Moritz, a former Time magazine journalist, went on to lament the lower numbers of women studying math and sciences as the reason why it's so difficult for the firm to hire more women — a popular excuse often used by the tech companies with low diversity numbers.

Hired's research found that women with zero - to - two years of experience who took new jobs actually asked for 2 percent more compensation than men — and received 7 percent more.

If these decisions are being made by higher - ups who aren't directly responsible for conception and formulation, it means the company needs to be restructured — hire more women of color, at the very least.

Gelman says the company will use the money to hire more employees, expand its physical footprint, invest in technology that will beef up its digital member portal, and more importantly, add a «scholarship program» for professional women who can't afford The Wing's rates.

In the past, Lyft created positions like Nishi's and implemented hiring practices that paved the way for more women and people of color to be represented in the company.

More women than men were hired for tech jobs this year, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Without provision of information about candidates other than their appearance, men are twice more likely to be hired for a mathematical task than women.

In an interview with USA TODAY following the meeting, Jackson said he stressed the need for Uber to hire more women and underrepresented minorities at all levels of the company, from the board of directors and the executive team to rank - and - file workers.

«Do better companies hire more women, do women choose to work for more successful companies, or do women themselves help improve companies» performance?

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.

We were very fortunate to find someone who was all that and more in a nanny we were blessed with for two years that we hired after we let go the emotionally sensitive young woman.

Hiring a house in order to be in the catchment for DOMINO homebirth, asking for a new health care professional in labour, changing hospitals, challenging policy — women are becoming more proactive in their approach of navigating the system in order to ensure that they get the most out of their maternity care and have a healthy positive birth experience.

Gillibrand was a hardworking lawyer (partner in David Boies» law firm); elected TWICE in a heavily Republican district; serves on the Armed Services Committee; ranks among the top ten fundraisers in the House; was hired by President Clinton to work at HUD; fought for the rights of abused women; is a genuine working Mom who gave birth to her second child just last March, making her only the sixth woman in the House to do so while serving in office; she has voted in every single election (unlike Kennedy who has missed even GENERAL elections); magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth... Need I say more?

While talks with lawyers for Lopez and the women accusing him of harassment were ongoing, Lopez was able to hire three more aides, two of whom later accused the Brooklyn Democrat of harassment as well.

This is what this corporate dictator anti-freedom-of-speech Mayor Michael Bloomberg had to say about those (like the women who were forced out of their job's of his company because they were pregnant) about whom he hire's for his company & I quote: «I just hopefully hire people who are a little more responsible, that's the first thing I worry about», «I've always thought that when you work for somebody, you have an obligation to not write a tell - all book afterwards and that's true whether you're in an administration or whether you're working for a private company».

2014 has been a significant year of accomplishments for Mark, including working with the Legislature to pass a balanced budget with a small tax cut, opening the Erie County Health Mall, signing an executive order requiring that all contractors with Erie County comply with equal pay laws for women, restructuring the Department of Social Services while hiring more CPS caseworkers, and managing the emergency response to four major weather - related events: two blizzards, flooding in West Seneca and Winter Storm Knife.

The bills rolled out on Wednesday as part of a bipartisan heroin task force include legislation that would allocate more funding to hire specialists at veterans treatment courts, end a ban on Medicaid reimbursement for drug treatment for incarcerated addicts, crack down on «doctor shopping» for pain medications and expand access to medication - assisted treatment for pregnant and postpartum women, among others.

The college has also tried to provide more role models and mentoring for female students by using more women as teaching assistants, hiring more female faculty members, and promoting them into leadership positions.

More men taking more time off should reduce hiring bias and, as a bonus, encourage fathers to take on a greater share of the domestic burden, yielding benefits for women's careers for years to cMore men taking more time off should reduce hiring bias and, as a bonus, encourage fathers to take on a greater share of the domestic burden, yielding benefits for women's careers for years to cmore time off should reduce hiring bias and, as a bonus, encourage fathers to take on a greater share of the domestic burden, yielding benefits for women's careers for years to come.

It is important for organizations wishing to hire more women in leadership roles to evaluate the gender bias in their organization, with a first step being an audit of the compensation practices for women and men.

Specifically, the authors report that women who compete for assistant professor positions in math - intensive science fields are just as likely to be hired as men are, if not more so, and that women are not discriminated against in tenure and promotion decisions.

For the society it marks a turning point: a chance to hire more women and more foreign researchers, and an opportunity to open up entirely new fields of research, because incoming directors can set their own course.

Their plan is not to force more hires but rather to meet with department chairs to create a strategy for increasing the pool of women candidates in each discipline, starting with chemistry and the two biology departments.

I've heard that dispensaries like to hire women budtenders, but I think it's more important to have passion for the product, passion for the industry, and the experience of being around marijuana.

• «Their Finest,» Lone Scherfig's World War II romance, about a woman (Gemma Arterton) hired to write uplifting movies for the British government, turns out to be a more compelling look at the retreat at Dunkirk than either «Dunkirk» or «Darkest Hour.»

Initial programs include (1) a customized Culture Change Toolkit to provide resources, best practices and training to create cultures that yield more balanced hiring, (2) a field - wide Sponsor / Protégé Program identifying and providing high - level endorsement for top women directors poised to advance their careers, and (3) accreditation for gender inclusiveness in the form of a ReFrame Stamp certification.

As the years progress, Jane begins to feel more like a nurse than a spouse, and Hawking develops feelings for a woman who is hired to care for him.

If Hahn was the breakout of «Bad Moms,» she's bested here only by Christine Baranski as Amy's militant mother Ruth, a woman so committed to delivering entirely over-the-top holiday experiences that the hiring of Kenny G for a private performance is considered one of the more cheap seasonal expenditures.

Crucially, the participants have committed to staying involved in the project and will enlist an ever - growing group of advocates to work inside their organizations on articulating the business case for making changes in culture and practices to hire more women and people of color.

Even more, we know that students of color are most likely to be taught by white women, so larger systemic shifts are necessary to ensure that hiring managers recognize and counteract institutional biases that prioritize creating formal and functional opportunities for women of color to drive change.

To hire a «token woman», or a woman who isn't necessarily qualified for the job but is hired based on her gender, is not only a horrible business idea, it's not fair to the other more qualified applicants and it's not fair to the woman who is in a job that she can't effectively manage.

Now, on the whole, I'm not one to go in for guilt by association: The fact that Michael E Mann's boss at the IPCC is facing sex charges for harassing women is no more relevant than the fact that Michael E Mann's boss at Penn State - Graham Spanier, the guy who hired him - is under indictment for obstruction of justice, failure to report child abuse, and child endangerment.

When Tinsely, Cheldelin, Kupfer Schneider, and Amanatullah studied new women hires, they found that when women asked for more compensation they were judged significantly «more demanding and less nice» than when new men hires engaged in the same behaviour.

In 2011, more than three - quarters of firms hired either staff or contract attorneys — with no opportunity for partnership — according to the National Survey on Retention and Promotion of Women in Law Firms.

A prosecution document unsealed last Friday purports to show that convicted former New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver had two extramarital affairs that further corrupted state government, one with a lobbyist who frequently represented clients interested in pending legislation and another with a woman who was hired at a succession of state jobs for which critics say she was under qualified... → Read More: Federal Prosecutors Allege Silver's Corruption of Albany Included Government Favors for Mistresses

She adds that during the hiring process she often sees women undercutting themselves when it comes to compensation, and men being pushier and asking for more.

I always wonder if I'm getting hired because the company needs more color or women or if maybe, just maybe, because I'm the right person for the job, regardless of my race and gender.

Women with less than one year of work experience asked for an average of 4 percent more than men did when they set their «preferred salaries» as job candidates on Hired's platform in 2016.

Women with under two years of experience are asking for an average 2 percent more compensation than men,» Hired says.

Besides being charged with setting up policies to hire more women and minority firefighters, the commission must train emergency phone staffers to be more sensitive to the huge number of calls for emergency medical problems (85 percent) rather than the reporting of fires, Wilson says.