Sentences with phrase «make gender diversity»

The letter urges five overall guiding principles and 10 best practices in order to get more women into the field generally and leadership positions, including: getting executives and boards to make gender diversity a priority; establishing mentorship programs that connect women with life sciences executives; and doing a better job tracking where female talent goes within biopharma firms, among other suggestions.

Stage 6, involves making gender diversity accountable.

The company reinvented the way it recruited by making gender diversity a priority.What sparked the change was the realization that Etsy's user base was 80 percent women.

Not exact matches

Research from Australia also supports quotas as a way to achieve significant results and to seize the benefits of gender diversity in decision making.

Other countries, such as the U.K., have gender diversity champions who have made excellent use of the bully pulpit, notably Lord Mervyn Davies, who is calling for 33 percent board participation by women by 2020.

Recently, Equilar, a research firm that focuses on board recruitment, put together a Gender Diversity Index and predicts that the board of directors on the Russell 3000 list — the 3000 largest companies based in the United States — will achieve parity, with a membership made up of 50 percent women and 50 percent men, by the fourth quarter of 2055.

Much has been made this year about the lack of overall diversity (both gender and race) in the technology industry.

The document said that improving racial and gender diversity is less important than making sure conservatives feel comfortable expressing themselves at work.

High profile edge cases, like the sexual harassment allegations at Uber, have the unfortunate effect of making ongoing diversity and gender equality issues seem insignificant in comparison.

This conference offers high - quality education, discussion and collaboration aimed to improve leadership potential, enhance skill sets, inform decision - making and encourage gender diversity at the corporate level.

«Gender diversity can improve team decision - making and improve innovation capabilities for development of new products or services,» says Alsford.

More gender diversity, particularly in corporate settings, can translate to increased productivity, greater innovation, better decision - making, and higher employee retention and satisfaction.

Diversity is widely acknowledged as a driver for improved business performance, yet as entrepreneurs face many challenges to growing their businesses, gender or age equality may not always make it to the top of the priority list.

Women to Make Up 40 Per Cent of Provincial Boards and Agencies by 2019 Link to Original Article: https://news.ontario.ca/opo/en/2016/06/ontario-sets-gender-diversity-targets.html by: Office of the Premier Today, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced new gender diversity targets to ensure more women have the opportunity to reach top leadership positions at provincial agencies and other government organizations.

Yet the Research teams discovered that those tech firms that do make an effort to boost gender diversity can generate significantly better returns than their less diverse peers.

Tracking hiring trends will help hold these powerful companies accountable for the big promises they're making about improving gender and ethnic diversity among their employees.

Why, asks John Leo in U.S. News & World Report, is his own constituency so willing to bring him down with protests, disrupted basketball games, and boycotts, when Pres. Lawrence worked so hard to make Rutgers a campus that «bristles with the enforcement tools of diversity: a speech code, real courses replaced by «multicultural curricular change,» diversity awareness «training» in lectures and freshman orientation sessions, a tolerance for ethnic and racial segregation in dorms («a self - affirming environment,» as Lawrence puts it), and professors who learn not to raise unapproved ideas about race, gender, and the campus power system built around multiculturalism»?

Diversity can be observed in the varied backgrounds and experiences that make up the fabric of the babywearing community, including, age, citizenship status, class, color, disability, gender expression, gender identity, marital status, national origin, parental status, race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation.

Johnson has said he will make diversity and inclusion a key part of his tenure and agenda, but he's faced criticism over gender and ethnic diversity in hiring during his four years prior to being elected.

«It's not just gender, it's culture, it's race... that diversity of opinion in the design and make - up of anything that we do is important.»

Lamb's letter also asked the parties to review how they make nominations for committee membership «to encourage an appropriate gender - balance and wider diversity.»

Jonathan Wai, a Duke University Talent Identification Program research scientist and co-author of the study, said a narrowing of gender gaps makes sense given increased efforts to promote gender diversity in science and engineering.

Whether along lines of personality, nation, race, culture, gender, the fact of our diversity is the great earthly adventure, and it's what makes each one of us so special and unique!

I confess to superhero fatigue but this diversity fest is refreshing - it takes on race and gender, it's quite serious, both in terms of politics and lack of humour, but it is well made by director Ryan Coogler, has lots of action and heart and my teen companions, perhaps best qualified to opine, absolutely loved it.

Villains have often felt like an Achilles» heel in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, to the point where the studio has made a concerted effort to add some distinction — both in gender diversity, as well as in personality and character development (see: Kurt Russell in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.

powerpoint I made about diversity and prejudice about looks, ability, gender, origin, etc featuring her majesty the Queen, the olympic and paralympic teams, Jeremy Kyle, the aliens from Toy Story, Susan Boyle, Hitler, Eminem, George Clooney and many more!

The other editors — Barrie Jean Borich, Creative Nonfiction, Sheila O'Connor, Fiction, and Mary Rockcastle, Executive Editor — and I make concerted efforts to publish writing which reflects gender, ethnic, and geographic diversity and to make the consideration of such diversity part of the editorial selection process.

The biggest fund managers — including BlackRock, Vanguard, Fidelity, American Funds, T. Rowe Price and State Street Global Advisors — all said they were committed to improving their gender diversity records, and were making efforts to recruit and train women who will eventually become portfolio managers.

The curator made the unusual point of publishing a prominent note on the show's webpage, justifying the use of the term «queer» in the show's title on the grounds that «no other option captured the full diversity of sexualities and gender identities that are represented in the show».

Working from, and against, the example of the Whitney Biennial, which launches many international careers each year (but really should be subtitled «Made (Mostly) in NYC»), Made in L.A. 2014 further develops its predecessor's approach of surveying Los Angeles artists with an eye to the broad ethnic, gender, and medium diversity that is apparent throughout the city's artistic landscape.

She has introduced and advocated for internal frameworks that enable feedback loops for both national / International decision - making and local representation as well as, gender, and racial equity that embraces a diversity of contributions, while fostering trust and reciprocity for collective work.

We take it as a given that innovative lawyers come in all genders, colors, and sexual orientations, and we are working to make sure TBDers reflect that diversity.

While progress has been made in gender diversity, she pointed out that the percentage of women on the bench in all Canadian court currently stands at approximately 31 % and that this number has been declining rather than rising in recent times.

The Supporting Principle to B. 2 of the 2016 Code states that board appointments should be made with due regard for the benefits of diversity on the board, including gender.

I think firms can step back and really take a hard look at that and say do we feel like we have adequate representation, not only of gender, let's get it all at one time, racial diversity, ethnic diversity, and so on, but really take a hard look at your committees and make sure that you are being representative of your firm in such a way that you can produce policies and procedures that are going to help you retrain that talent that you've worked so hard to recruit.

We have some pretty ambitious goals about racial and gender diversity to make sure that the room is full of a variety of voices and perspectives that are representative of the legal profession as a whole.

As mentioned in Part I of this column, Canadian law schools have made significant strides in increasing their ethnic, cultural, and gender diversity profiles over the past decade.

Sam Glover: You know, one of the things that's come out in my conversations with you, in our own at Lawyerist and our conversations about gender inclusion, diversity, whatever, is we often make mistakes let's say.

But while law schools have made some significant forward strides in achieving a gender balance and diversifying the ethnic composition of their graduates, it is difficult to believe that they are making any headway on socioeconomic diversity.

A few days after International Women's Day, the Manitoba Bar Association's Equality Section held a continuing professional development program looking at progress made toward gender diversity in the legal profession in Manitoba in the 20 + years since the Touchstones report was issued.

Allen & Overy (A&O) is set to open a hub office in Vauxhall next week (9 April) to make it easier for staff to work remotely, as part of a renewed push to boost gender diversity at the firm.

Jurors bring many qualities that make them truly representative of the conscience of the community to the decision - making process: gender, ethnic, political, and philosophical diversity; a fresh perspective; collective wisdom; and a breadth of attitudes and experiences.

HB 7455 Requires governor and nominating authorities in making appointments to judicial nominating commission «ensure that the membership of the commission reflects the racial, ethnic, and gender diversity of the state's population.»

The Financial Post also mentions other key points made by our lawyers, reporting that our article «referred to gender diversity as a key area for corporations to address given recent «changes introduced by ISS» and plans for 2019 unveiled by Glass Lewis.»

Cisco is one of the few companies that has recognized the importance of gender diversity on its board: when diverse leaders make big picture decisions, corporate culture thrives, and corporate growth follows.

But at LAWPRO, as in the broader legal community, diversity isn't just a matter of ethnicity or national origin: gender, language, sexual orientation and a plethora of other qualities make up the world that is LAWPRO.

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.

«Although our promotions are made on merit alone, an equal gender split reflects the diversity of our group and our new associates are also evenly split across our northern and southern offices, showing the increasing strength in depth we have across the UK after a transformational year for the group.»

She urged that greater efforts be made «to ensure that a diversity of gender and regional identities are represented» in the emerging debate over the weapons.

Kane described initiatives by the UN Secretary - General to increase gender diversity at the United Nations as well as the advice and resources that the Office for Disarmament Affairs makes available for governments pursuing disarmament and arms control objectives.