Sentences with phrase «many white men»

Would like to see no women or people of color — heck, maybe white men too — accept jobs at Facebook until Thiel is gone.

Only 12 percent of Hispanic men and 21 percent of black men have a college degree by their late 20s, compared to nearly 40 percent of white men, according to the National Center for Education Statistics at the Department of Education.

In her speech, Winfrey also highlighted the life of Recy Taylor, an African American woman who was abducted and raped by six white men in 1944.

Prime - age black men are 13 percentage points less likely to be employed than prime - age white men.

We started pitching VCs in the winter of 2014, but the first two dozen of them — primarily affluent white men who lived in New York or California and shopped at Whole Foods — didn't understand what we were trying to do.

He claimed that informants disguised as workers created a culture of fear, and that Segen workers were instructed «not to tell any information to the white men.»

In the startup world, this means that companies that aim to improve the experiences of young white men get a heck of a lot more attention than those that spring from the experiences of pretty much anyone else.

And then there was this user who said he was originally declined from a listing, but immediately accepted once he had created a fake profile with a white man as his profile picture.

Otherwise, it was all young white men.

«For all of the Mark Zuckerbergs or the successful companies that we see that are founded by white men, how many have failed?»

A very famous entrepreneur once told me that she left her great executive role because, simply, «one woman standing in a room full of old white men wasn't going to do very much.»

In other words, wealthy, white men are the ones who tend to best set up to succeed as inventors.

For his part, Barry Glassman, CFP, founder and president of Glassman Wealth Services, pointed out that it's crucial the financial advisory community — dominated by older white men — evolve to better serve and ever more diverse U.S. market.

It reports that women are «more likely than white men to report doing more office housework than their colleagues» while they «have less access to glamour work than white men do.»

Five of its eight board members are white men.

I sat down with three white men, the executives of Alutiiq.

White men have historically made up a hefty part of the American population.

In aggregate, the data showed that 3 % of the companies on this year's Fortune 500 are fully transparent about the demographics of their workforce — and 72 % of the senior executives at those 16 companies were white men.

Still, it's unlikely that beer companies will forget about white men all together.

Or is Wall Street still just a white man's world with a thin veneer of diversity layered on for public relations effect?

While historically white men and women drink more than their black and Hispanic counterparts, that gap is narrowing — again, primarily driven by white Gen Zers drinking less.

She has received emails from longtime managers, white men who thank her and say, «I had no idea the people working for me were going through these things.»

When I sat in rooms with middle - aged white men, I heard them speaking like young black men in America.

But like many superheroes of color in the Marvel (and DC) universes, Black Panther was relegated to the periphery of the pantheon of superheroes — most of whom were white male characters created by white men.

You said you had an epiphany in interviewing some of these former steel workers — that as a woman of color, you could empathize with middle - aged white men.

«I hate that I even have to think that way, but I literally will walk into a meeting pretending I am some 56 - year - old white man, in a suit — you just speak differently.

The nomination of Contreras - Sweet, a Latina woman, may be an effort to stave off some of the flack the White House has received for having too many white men in its cabinet.

When Zabeen Hirji joined the Royal Bank of Canada as a teller in 1977, all of the company's executives were white men.

And it isn't written by a white man.

«My concerns are that these platforms were built from the ground up by white men and tested on their families and people in their orbit who looked like them, and they never thought about how their platforms could do harm,» Sarkeesian said.

«I previously worked for a large employer where the sales team was made up of nine white men who were all very clean cut, between six - foot - one and six - foot - three inches [tall], and had a certain «Captain America» look to them,» said Steven Benson, founder and CEO of Badger Maps in San Francisco.

Video games have come under close scrutiny in the last few years as critics have pushed back at the overwhelming skew towards young white men in game characters, themes, and ideals.

When Jason asked why, Terrell, a blond - haired, blue - eyed white man, responded with a simple question: «Have you ever met a white man named Terrell?»

About three quarters of the men in the class — and it was all men and all white men — had served in the war.

The professor, a white man, ignored her questions, even as he engaged enthusiastically with white male students.

Black men make 76.1 cents for every dollar a white man earns.

Most of the programming featured white men as protagonists; women and black men were, by and large, secondary characters.

So, what do you do when the pool of candidates you identify as leaders consists predominantly of white men?

When a child looks at a list of 44 presidents and sees 44 men (and 43 white men, let's not forget), she internalizes the idea that a «president» is a job meant for other people.

The entertainment behemoth, now owned by Disney, has realized that its superhero movie leads don't always have to be played by generic, well - muscled white men who are indistinguishable from one another.

Sure, it's possible for a straight, middle - aged white man to feel empathy for a woman who has been trapped in a promotion - proof position, but research shows that companies with more - diverse boards excel in everything from employee retention to product migration and customer satisfaction.

The diversity statistics are on par with those of other tech firms that have come under fire recently for filling high - ranking positions with mostly white men.

That said, the ratios for Hispanic and black women there are 61 % and 65 %, respectively, compared to white men.

If they are «aggressive» they are judged for stepping outside of a feminine norm, and become directly threatening to white men.

It appears to show a black man — King says his name is Brandon Ward — recording an interview with a white man at a Starbucks in California.

And white women in Tampa earn 83 % of white men's salaries.

Asian women face the smallest wage gap — they earn 87 % of what white men earn, resulting in a pay gap of 13 %.

The white man, however, named Weston, simply walked up, asked for the bathroom code — and was allowed to use the restroom without buying anything.

In Houston, Texas, Hispanic women earn around 35 % of what white men make.

And African - American men are far more likely to be stopped and searched by police, charged with crimes and sentenced to longer prison terms than white men convicted of the same offenses.