Sentences with phrase «more women and minorities»

The makeup of the 114th Congress will set quite a few records, including more women and minorities than any previous Congress, the largest Republican majority in the House since before World War II, and the first Congress since World War II to not include a veteran of that war.

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.

Weber State's GEAR UP program focuses on getting more women and minorities in STEM programs.

Colleges and universities have made recent news with their successes in recruiting more women and minorities to STEM fields.

The «Strategic Plan for Agricultural Education» calls for, among other goals, developing a more science - based agricultural curriculum; increasing the nation's agricultural «literacy;» attracting more women and minorities to the agriculture field; and including the subject and its teachers in the educational mainstream.

But some perennial topics have acquired a different focus; for example, the question about the internet has shifted from ensuring access to cybersecurity and privacy, and the question dealing with education now focuses on attracting more women and minorities into the scientific workforce rather than on boosting overall student achievement.

«For her to become president of NAS at this time, when there is a lot of talk about getting more women and minorities into STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) fields, here is an exemplary role model to those who might see themselves in those realms,» McEntee said.

The great imperative in Silicon Valley right now is to get more women and minorities into very high - paying jobs.

They are also seen as being critically important to helping more women and minorities land top spots in tech companies and bringing more diversity to their overwhelmingly white - and - Asian male workforces.

We believe this will spur a small business revolution, empower more women and minorities and revive the American dream.»

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.»

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

Industry experts anticipate more women and minorities will become startup funders when non-professional investors are allowed to participate in crowdfunding.

To that end, Apple has committed to hiring more women and minorities and, according to the company's website, 50 percent of its new hires from July 2016 to July 2017 were from historically underrepresented groups.

Co-founder and CEO Evan Sharp outlined Pinterest's initiative to include more women and minorities by 2016, in a blog post published earlier today.

Macy's runs a «vendor development program» to help more women and minority business owners sell their wares.

We in the startup world need to continue to work on the inherent bias in current VC models, and make sure many more women and minority founders break into the game.

Fifteen states will receive grants worth at least $ 50,000 each to draw up plans to recruit more women and minority applicants to become principals.

The district is required by law to try and find ways to put more women and minority construction workers on the project.

Besides being charged with setting up policies to hire more women and minority firefighters, the commission must train emergency phone staffers to be more sensitive to the huge number of calls for emergency medical problems (85 percent) rather than the reporting of fires, Wilson says.

Not exact matches

As part of the proposed settlement, the company said it would change how it decides employee compensation and promotions in addition to providing women and minorities with more training and mentoring.

Obama lost big with such rural white voters, but won more votes from woman, minorities and others groups clustered in or near cities.

Interpersonal phenomena like stereotype threat, in which people from stigmatized groups spend mental energy grappling with negative stereotypes about those groups, can lead women and minorities with the same skills to perform more poorly.

After outlining barriers, the report offers four strategies for making accelerators and incubators more attractive to women and minorities.

A Wall Street outsider in every conceivable way — a public school grad, a Texan from a visible minority, a woman — Godiwalla contended with more than the usual challenges when she moved to Manhattan in the»90s and became an analyst in Morgan Stanley's corporate finance group.

Initiatives detailed in the White House fact sheet ranged from committing to the «Rooney rule,» a recruiting practice in which at least one woman and one minority are considered for each position, to more specific ideas and goals.

What's more, his polarizing lack of political correctness can also work against him among women and minority businesspeople, leaving the door open to his rival Clinton, whose small business platform and reputation for getting the job done may very well win over undecided voters.

Since Wall Street usually expresses its priorities by rewarding, through higher compensation, the behavior it seeks, the firms that are offering more money to women and ethnic minorities appear to be sending the message that they want to change what historically has been a white male dominated business.

Wall Street is trying to attract more women and ethnic minorities into its predominantly white, male ranks.

To achieve «full representation» of women and minorities by 2020 — a.k.a. employ a workforce that is more representative of actual demographics.

A «meet one, take one» campaign that encourages industry leaders to bring a woman or a minority to a networking or other event to broaden and diversify the network opportunities and create more inclusive communities for entrepreneurs.

The respondents said time - wasting on the Internet, intergenerational differences, integrating immigrants, and employee wardrobe choices are more serious challenges than issues affecting women and minorities.

As more companies begin to deliver remarkable products and experiences to women, people of color, and other minority groups that have largely been ignored or underserved in the past, they are responding with their support and loyalty.

Elevating more women and underrepresented minorities to positions of power is becoming a business imperative for the firm, with clients demanding diversity in their legal teams, Erickson says.

These companies are also taking steps toward creating a better workplace for women and minorities to thrive, advance their careers and move into more leadership roles.

For the first time in the report's history, the firm found that more than half of new board members at S&P 500 companies (56 percent) were women and / or minorities.

More recently, Starbucks announced it reached 100 percent pay equity for women, men and underrepresented minorities — ending a 10 - year process to end pay differences among its employees.

And, whether we're talking about hedge funds or mutual funds, private equity or real estate trusts, there is not a single field with more than 5 percent of its assets managed by minority or women - owned firms, according to a recently released Knight Foundation report.

While a majority of those surveyed believe that the pay gap is real for both women and minorities, not everyone understands that black workers — specifically women — see more obstacles to racial equality and barriers in the workplace.

While individual asset managers may have had the requisite experience, ownership of firms by minorities and women was more recent, so they didn't meet the institutional ownership threshold.

She is one of two African - American women on the U.S. swim team (there has never been more than one at past Games) and hopes to use her success to bring more minorities into the sport.

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

A tokenistic mindset — let's get a woman, a minority and throw in some foreigners for good measure — misses the point: It's the combination of perspectives, experiences and skills that matters, as it helps curb groupthink and anticipate more curves in the road.

But I was never as dumb as author James Damore who wrote a 3,200 word manifesto saying the reason why women and some minorities aren't more represented at his firm is due to biological differences.

In an interview with USA TODAY following the meeting, Jackson said he stressed the need for Uber to hire more women and underrepresented minorities at all levels of the company, from the board of directors and the executive team to rank - and - file workers.

That said, the «face of franchising» is changing, with more women, minorities and younger people entering the business daily.»

Firms targeted by activists end up with more white men on their boards, often replacing women and minorities in the process, according to a study by proxy voting firm ISS.

According to a 2016 study published by the Harvard Business Review, including more than one woman or member of a racial minority in a finalist pool helps combat unconscious bias among interviewers and increases the likelihood of a diverse hire.

They, like other Silicon Valley men, should be far more active in mentoring and motivating women and minorities.

It means restoring honest, rigorous policy debate, advocating for more formal representation of women and minority groups, and challenging the retreat of government from investing in our communities.