Sentences with phrase «more gender parity»

International Women's Day on Thursday is intended to celebrate women's cultural and economic achievements and call for more gender parity.

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It's time for any organization with more than a perfunctory interest in gender parity to acknowledge the biases — often unconscious — that might be keeping qualified women from positions that ultimately go to men.

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It's an important point and one that exposes a limitation of the Boardlist's approach: No matter how many female directors they help place, Silicon Valley boards won't get anywhere near gender parity until more women create and invest in startups.

However the region's larger economies perform less well: with China ranking 100 and Japan and the Republic of Korea ranking 114 and 118, respectively, it is clear that their remains much economic upside from making a more pronounced effort towards gender parity.

3 Principles for Hiring a More Diverse Team How a little fintech company achieved gender parity (66 % women in our executive team; 53 % women in our company), established 100 % paid leave policies for mothers and fathers, and is working even harder toward better diversity.

Brooklyn's NYU Tandon is moving toward gender parity by making tech more welcoming to female students.

And in the last year, discussions about the number of women speaking at Christian conferences and events have led to some UK event organisers announcing their commitment to gender parity and others taking steps to achieve more balanced line - ups.

Is there a place for pro-life women to partner with their pro-choice sisters on areas where they share common convictions: workplace parity, gender - based violence, racial justice, motherhood, and more?

Significant success was also achieved in universal education with more than 97 % of children of school going age being enrolled in school, with a gender parity of 1:1.

While much of this discrepancy can be explained with reference to society's established power structures and imbalances, we'd like to see more of an effort made on the Committee side to bring about, where possible, a greater degree of gender and regional parity.

A new study finds that gender parity in small group settings helps young women engineers feel more confident as they pursue a challenge.

And while there are still slightly more men than females participating in the games this year, this statistic is a push in the right direction, for gender parity and sports — especially considering that it was only in 2012 that women were granted access to participate in every Olympic sport.

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And yet, at our country's current rate, it will take more than 75 years for us to reach gender parity in the superintendent position.

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This is a time for optimism and celebration of the remarkable gains to which the MDGs have contributed worldwide, including: decreasing the global share of people living on less than $ 1.25 per day by more than two - thirds since 1990; more than halving the rate of child mortality; and reaching gender parity in primary - school enrollment.

For more than 100 years, International Women's Day has celebrated the achievements of women and pushed for gender parity.

As more firms do so and receive acknowledgement for their successes, we hope to see more movement, more quickly, toward gender parity in law firm leadership.

And with global activism for women's equality fuelled by movements like #MeToo, #TimesUp and more — there is a strong global momentum striving for gender parity.

With the World Economic Forum's 2017 Global Gender Gap Report findings telling us that gender parity is over 200 years away — there has never been a more important time to keep motivated and #PressforProGender Gap Report findings telling us that gender parity is over 200 years away — there has never been a more important time to keep motivated and #PressforProgender parity is over 200 years away — there has never been a more important time to keep motivated and #PressforProgress.