While we didn't have the most students attend our panels, there were more than in previous years, and there was
more diversity among the students.
Without any direct intention to create
more diversity among the lawyers, the lawyers involved in the hiring process noticed that women who applied to this firm simply tended to stand out above men who applied.
In recent months, Facebook, Hewlett - Packard and MetLife have all announced initiatives that will require
more diversity among their outside counsel with firms who do not meet the diversity goals risking losing fees or even whole engagements.
The world is increasingly run by software and we need
more diversity among those people who are building it.
Under the leadership of president Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the Academy has undergone an aggressive push for
more diversity among its ranks, an initiative that has seen a large number of women (46 percent of a record 683 movie professionals in 2016) and racial minorities (41 percent of that same figure) asked to join the prestigious industry group in recent years.
This research reveals much
more diversity among cultural groups from different «non-Western» parts of the world than was previously acknowledged.
In addition to the Rochester City School District, the Syracuse City School District is also working to foster
more diversity among its teachers.
Many prominent festivals such as New Wine, Keswick and Spring Harvest have traditionally looked very «white» in terms of attendance, although moves have been made in recent years to consciously include
more diversity among speakers and musicians on their platforms.
«[W] orkplace diversity proposals (which mostly concern rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people and those seeking
more diversity among corporate board members) account for 9 percent of the total number of shareholder resolutions filed so far this year.»
That's bad news for anyone hoping to see
more diversity among investors, but according to Fonstad and Gouw it might actually be good news for their new firm, allowing them unique advantages as two women in a male - dominated world.
Not exact matches
Immigration that emphasizes
diversity, rather than merely merit, tends to attract
more people who specialize in occupations uncommon
among U.S. - born workers.
This not only supports
diversity but has the added benefit of creating a tighter,
more invested community
among the workforce.
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.
The Glassdoor survey also evaluated
diversity among direct managers and found
more than half (57 percent) said their direct supervisor is male.
It is also the case that
among these four groups, Pentecostals and non-denominational churches have the most
diversity and tend to be
more evenly split between white and minority.
At the Johns Hopkins inaugural he joined in the critique, though somewhat
more defensively: «A university whose officers and students are divided
among many sects need no
more be irreverent and irreligious than the community which in respect to
diversity of creeds it resembles....
The traditional ecumenical goal, «organic unity»
among the churches, has fallen on bad days, largely because it is thought to call for a needless suppression of
diversity achieved through a generation or
more of ecclesiastical self - preoccupation.
This might be
more difficult for American universities than for British or some Canadian universities, which have always seen themselves as federations of colleges,
among which there was often
diversity.
When, to this
diversity of cultural conditioning and the resulting bliks
among Christians, there are added the secular assumptions of the small town, the aspirations of the younger generation, and the mobility of the people, the
diversity is even
more obvious.
The lack of social
diversity among the Lib Dems is even
more pronounced than
among the Tories.
«You get this compounding effect where you have a lower
diversity of herbivores per tree but then you also are getting
more similar species as you move between trees species and
among sites, so you end up with even less diverse communities than you would expect,» said Burghardt.
«Organisms with greater
diversity among the cassettes will have a selective advantage as they will be
more antigenically evolvable, or better able to repeatedly generate novel antigens, and will thus be
more likely to persist within hosts,» the researchers wrote.
Sudmant added that learning
more about great ape genetic
diversity also contributes to knowledge about disease susceptibility
among various primate species.
As part of its upcoming examination of
more than 2000 U.S. doctoral research programs, the National Research Council asked faculty members to weigh the relative importance, in percentages, of five types of
diversity among faculty and student populations.
«This research expands our understanding of the
diversity in this enigmatic group, in addition to helping clarify relationships
among seed plants
more generally.»
According to the study, published today in the scientific journal Biological Conservation, the genetic
diversity among the examined butterfly species is also expected to decline sharply in the future — as a result, the insects will become
more sensitive to environmental changes.
CIUDAD OBREGÓN, Mexico (CIMMYT)-- As
more than 200 wheat science and food specialists from 34 countries gathered in northwestern Mexico to address threats to global nutrition and food security, 9 outstanding young women wheat scientists
among them showed that this effort will be strengthened by
diversity.
We use cultivation - independent approaches to get a wider and
more realistic perspective of the true
diversity, and the new data is used in phylogenomics analysis to gain insight into the evolutionary relationships
among those new genomes.
I think, if anything, there's
more celebration and embracing of the uniqueness and
diversity of style that exists
among women.
There are frame rate issues and the lack of
diversity among quests is a bit disappointing, but the jaw dropping visuals and superb audio design left me pining for
more.
As the
diversity of students in our schools continues to grow, the arguments for policies meant to improve representation
among teachers have
more and
more evidence to support them.
Diversity can also be found
among the 67 countywide districts in Florida educating
more than 2.5 million students, the 545 districts in New Jersey educating nearly 1.3 million students, and the 413 districts educating fewer than 150,000 students in Montana.
Among other things, it helps teachers become
more sensitive and culturally attuned to the level of
diversity in their classrooms.
Many educators, policymakers, and other stakeholders worry that increasing selectivity may lead to a less racially diverse teacher workforce, as minority candidates generally score lower on many of the current selectivity metrics used by teacher preparation programs.14 Others maintain that the
diversity gap will only continue to grow in the decades to come, even with a focus on the recruitment and retention of the current generation of prospective teachers.15 Instead, those skeptical of the United States» ability to attain both goals offer solutions such as increased cultural competency
among the existing teacher workforce to inspire and encourage a
more diverse generation of future educators.16
Charleston Students Celebrate
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Facing the issue of cultural
diversity, inclusion in Canada seems
more effective than in the United States, especially in terms of bridging the gap
among various student groups (e.g., native students and immigrant students).
It's still the second - highest level of
diversity among state public districts, topped only by Boston, which this year reports
more than 41 percent.
Tax
diversity has become a
more common discussion
among personal finance experts in recent years.
The complexity and the
diversity of artistic expression becomes even
more accentuated in the 1980s and 1990s, and the artists whom we have selected are
among the most important of those researching new possibilities within photography (John Divola, Catherine Opie), paintings and sculpture (Paul McCarthy, Henry Taylor, Charles Ray, Meg Cranston, Laura Owens) and installations (William Leavitt, Alexis Smith).
Liz Glynn (Art MFA 08), one of the
more recent grads to donate work, enforced the sense of pride that filled the room, «You see echoes of different generations
among the artists, but also some real
diversity of approaches.»
Trean, by understanding the complex interactions
among no - till, crop
diversity, crop synergism, and the soil microbial community, one can develop cropping systems that yield
more, but do not necessarily require
more inputs.
«UH oceanographers Robert Bidigare, director of the Center for Marine Microbial Ecology and
Diversity (CMMED), and Dave Karl, director of the Center for Microbial Oceanography: Research and Education (C -
MORE) are
among the co-authors of a paper in the journal Science showing that carbon dioxide does not always sink to the ocean depths where it can be stored.
Colombia ranks
among the top five nations with the greatest
diversity of plant and animal species in the world;
more different kinds of birds and amphibians make their home here than in any other place on the planet.
Perhaps the most notable of these at the international level is the Convention on Biological
Diversity's Decision XIII / 14 para 6 which notes «that
more transdisciplinary research and sharing of knowledge
among appropriate institutions is needed in order to better understand the impacts of climate - related geoengineering on biodiversity and ecosystem functions and services, socio - economic, cultural and ethical issues and regulatory options.»
However, there certainly are a wide
diversity of political beliefs
among climate scientists and though I won't go through lists, I know a few strong Republicans and few that are
more to the left, and
more than a few independents.
Some of the UK's largest law firms are placing
more impetus on partners to take individual responsibility to improve
diversity among their ranks.
While there was
diversity among the winners,
more important were the initiatives the winners led to further
diversity across the profession and in our justice system.
UK top 10 firms Hogan Lovells, Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) and Allen & Overy (A&O) are
among those stepping up efforts to hold partners to account by
more explicitly linking
diversity to compensation and performance reviews.
The variety and degree of cultural and international differences within and
among global law firms» offices call for a
more expansive understanding and appreciation of
diversity.
Of course, lawyers have no God - given right to govern, and
more occupational
diversity among politicians is almost certainly a good thing.