Sentences with phrase «gender equity hiring»

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In September 2016, the NCAA asked its members to sign a non-binding pledge «to specifically commit to establishing initiatives for achieving ethnic and racial diversity, gender equity and inclusion with a focus and emphasis on hiring practices in intercollegiate athletics to reflect the diversity of our membership and our nation.»

The Initiative is modeled after President Barack Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative for young men and the city's Young Men's Initiative — and will be funded with $ 20 million in City Council and private philanthropic funds to pursue recommendations like hiring more guidance counselors in school, expanding the Nurse - Family Partnership program, and requiring city agencies to have «gender equity liaisons.»

At the Jan. 9 town board meeting, the board approved personnel resolutions with the hires and raises that were not made public even as Town Supervisor Joseph Saladino and other board members praised progress toward gender equity.

Many U.S. universities have no women at all among their physics faculty, and when people talk about gender equity in physics, this fact is often cited as evidence of a hiring bias.

Employment Equity, on the other hand, refers to policies that forbid discriminatory hiring practices and workplace policies that subordinate the interests of certain individuals on the basis of personal characteristics (i.e., gender, ethnicity, disability, religion, etc.).

There are some immediate measures that can be taken — a few are mentioned in the CBA's Ethical Practices Self - Evaluation Tool including having interviewers and lawyers who make hiring decisions receive training on gender and racial stereotypes and the role of unconscious bias in hiring decisions; using written interviewing guidelines; having an employment equity and diversity hiring policy in place and regularly measuring diversity performance within the firm.