Sentences with phrase «make hiring more women»

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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.

Meanwhile, Uber will have to walk carefully as it tries to hire more women, who currently make up about 22 % of the company's leadership.

Two years later, most companies are not faring much better: Consider that Facebook, which has been making an aggressive push to hire more women engineers and people of color, revealed last month that just 2 percent of its U.S. work force is black and only 4 percent is Hispanic.

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.

A new study revealed the most diverse players in the tech sector as major companies make public efforts to hire more women and minorities.

The results come as major companies make public efforts to hire more women and ethnic minorities.

In a blog post, co-founder Evan Sharp noted that most big tech companies — including Pinterest — have made little progress on hiring more women and minorities, a failure that he attributes largely to the fact «that companies haven't stated specific goals.»

We fully expect that more women will land in the coveted partner role, both as firms make it a priority to hire and promote women, and as women themselves start more venture firms.

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?

MIT President Susan Hockfield says the report, based on interviews with women faculty members, demonstrates the «stunning progress» MIT has made in hiring more women and increasing their job satisfaction.

The UW On - Ramps workshops aimed to broaden the universe of women from which universities can hire — and ultimately to change the culture of STEM departments and make them more welcoming to underrepresented groups — by helping highly qualified women with nonacademic career trajectories navigate the transition to academic employment.

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.

This year alone, they released six of the most inventive, quality offerings out there: two terrifying survival thrillers, Damien Power's devastating and brilliant Killing Ground and Sam Patton's lesser but still - worthy Desolation; Sean Byrne's masterful tale of artistic obsession and satanic possession The Devil's Candy (all three even harder to endure because the featured families in peril are so human and likable); A Dark Song, an unnerving occult thriller in which a woman hires a medium to help make contact with her dead daughter; and House on Willow Street, which, similar to last year's horror highlight Don't Breathe, sees a house robbery — led by a woman with a mission, played by modern scream - queen Sharni Vinson — go terrible wrong, but this time in a more supernatural way.

Meryl Streep has long advocated the hiring of more women in all aspects of filmmaking and noted that so - called «women's movies» - when done well — makes a ton of money.

The tech industry's lack of diversity continues to make headlines, with companies including Apple and Google undertaking efforts to hire and promote more women and minorities.

Our legal news podcast Coast to Coast this week looks at Diversity in Law, discussing whether progress has been made since 1999, when the chief legal officers of 500 large corporations agreed to push their outside law firms to hire more minorities and women.

Yet, despite some isolated efforts to hire and retain more female attorneys and promote more women into partnership, little tangible progress has been made to improve the position of women in the profession...

Graduate employers want to hire women, there are lots of opportunities out there and these candidates are more likely to successfully make it through the selection process than men.