Sentences with phrase «more women and people of color»

Durham was exhibited in the landmark 1993 Whitney Biennial, which addressed debates around multiculturalism and exhibited more women and people of color than ever before.

At a time when museums are making a concerted effort to expand the cultural conversation to include more women and people of color, Mr. Hollein said it was also important to him that the Met «open up» to incorporate a range of perspectives.

Will you get more women and people of color behind the camera as well as in front of the camera?

In the wake of two years of #OscarsSoWhite protests, the academy began taking dramatic steps in 2016 to bring more women and people of color into its historically overwhelmingly white and male membership ranks, and as a result the pool of academy members — now numbering roughly 8,400 — has become younger and more diverse.

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.

And that, as a result, if there is to be any hope of meaningful progress in Hollywood as a result of #MeToo's revelations, such progress will have to come not merely through the ad - hoc punishment of abusive behavior, but also through a wholesale transformation of the Hollywood system, both at its foundations and in its echelons: more women and people of color in positions of leadership.

They're not just inviting differently (i.e. less white men and more women and people of color) but MORE in general.

The New York City public financing system has only been fully funded since about 2010, but the effect has been far more women and people of color running for office, and far more incumbents getting challenged.

This cycle, we endorsed more candidates who better reflect the diversity of our country, including more women and people of color, than ever before.

Have you forgotten we have waaaayy more women and people of color representing us, so I'm pretty sure we are just fine with women in power.

In the past, Lyft created positions like Nishi's and implemented hiring practices that paved the way for more women and people of color to be represented in the company.

It's asking its companies to do one of the few things they can do to get more women and people of color in the door.

McCreary and other speakers throughout the day emphasized the importance of bringing more women and persons of color into the industry as a means of battling discrimination in all its forms.

«Dr. Effie Jones was a stellar career educator, who used her considerable talents to maximize opportunities and successes for students and emerging system leaders, with a focus on significantly augmenting the senior leadership pool with more woman and people of color,» Sherman said.

Not exact matches

When she first started talking about how the school needed to become more diverse, she says, «I was surprised to find out the meme around Harvey Mudd was that we are a merit - based institution and bringing in more women or people of color would mean lowering our standards.»

It's been more than two years since Facebook and others in tech committed to hiring more women and underrepresented people of color, and so far, there is very little to show for it.

As of now, Holberton claims that 40 % of its current students are women and more than half (53 %) are people of color.

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.

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.

Research shows that women and people of color are much more likely to get housework - type assignments than to get assigned to glamour work.

She also said that these VCs, along with her own firm, have more actively begun steering their most promising companies to «modern venture firms that have women and people of color in investing positions.»

The report notes that the solar workforce is growing more diverse, employing a larger share of women and people of color, as well as a significant number of military veterans.

That's why it's important for casts in movies to feature more realistic women (and people of color, as well as LGBT folks!).

They also tell me that people in the Middle Ages thought the earth was flat (everybody knew it was round), that women in the Middle Ages were no better than cattle (they had more freedom than they would enjoy until the twentieth century), that people in the Middle Ages were morose and grim (they were boisterous partiers who loved color), that they were morbidly fascinated with demons (they portrayed demons as ridiculous stooges), and they were oppressed by their kings (most of the kings were weak).

These reformers insist that the Federal Reserve will be more publicly accountable if its governing boards, which are currently dominated by white men from the financial and corporate sectors, included more women, people of color as well as labor and consumer voices.

The hedge fund manager Daniel S. Loeb, a prominent supporter of charter schools and a major financial backer of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo and congressional Republicans, accused the African - American woman who leads the Democrats in the New York State Senate of having done «more damage to people of color than anyone who has ever donned a hood.»

«As a result, Minneapolis» City Council is more diverse, has more women, more people of color than it's ever had before, and they've got higher participation and turnout than they ever had before,» he said.

Still, they succeed where it counts: Black Panther makes the Marvel Cinematic Universe a bigger, more interesting, more engaging place, one where for the first time women and people of color aren't limited to token or supporting roles.

There were more women, more people of color, and more LGBTQ characters.

Black Panther has more women and black actors than any MCU movie and A Wrinkle in Time has an amazingly diverse cast, promising a shift in genres that have traditionally neglected people of color (a fact that's very frustrating, considering what a fruitful and powerful genre it is for talking about oppression).

Hollywood's getting a little better at telling stories that incorporate more diverse perspectives, with women and people of color getting more opportunities both in front of the camera and behind it.

Creating more content for women and people of color is not only about equality; it also makes good business sense.

This is the 90th Oscars, and a few extra nominations won't undo years of exclusion of women and people of color, Hollywood as a whole has to actively work to give more opportunities to those previously ostracized and make sure a wider range of stories get told.

Hollywood has only grown more dependent on these big blockbusters, which are rarely ever directed by women and people of color, in part because studios keep rewarding filmmakers — like Singer — known for erratic workplace behavior or worse.

The Academy's recent diversity push added more younger and international members; its 7,000 voters are now 28 percent women and 13 percent people of color.

By asking organizations to develop leadership plans for talented women and people of color, managers and leadership teams actually begin to walk the walk of diversity and inclusion, resulting in more creativity, greater innovation, and better results.

While we work towards a more just system that gives all children equal access to an excellent education, we simultaneously seek a more just sector that enables all women and people of color to reach their full potential.

However, these women, who are more likely to be people of color or to speak a second language, or both, are generally not as well educated as lead teachers and are usually paid even less.

We are especially interested in seeing more submissions from people of backgrounds that have been historically underrepresented or excluded from traditional publishing, including, but not limited to, women, people of color, LGBTQIA and non-binary gender people, persons with disabilities, members of religious minorities, and people from outside the United States.

In this case, the charity is Code.org, a non-profit dedicated to getting more students into computer science careers and increasing participation by women and people of color.

Six artists of color use performance, photography, textiles, and more to take on stories such as modern - day gentrification in Bed - Stuy, traced through an amateur kung fu film found at the former home of a theater frequented by Reverend Al Sharpton; the Syrian refugee crisis and conflict, mixing media coverage and first - person accounts; and the actual Revolutionary War's 1776 Battle of Brooklyn, conducted by a woman of color.

[5] This exhibitions recontextualization of contemporary Bay Area art (by featured people of color and women), and showcased some of the following artists; Ruth Asawa, Bernice Bing, Rolando Castellon, Claude Clark, Robert Colescott, Frank Day, Rupert Garcia, Mike Henderson, Oliver Jackson, Frank LaPena, Linda Lomahaftewa, George Longfish, Ralph Maradiaga, José Montoya, Manuel Neri, Mary Lovelace O'Neil, Darryl Sapien, Raymond Saunders, James Suzuki, Horace Washington, Al Wong, René Yañez, Leo Valledor, and many more.

As could be expected, since current interests have been shifting more and more towards themes of discrimination, also at Frieze we see a better representation of certain categories — or rather, a shift from «a certain kind» of representation of women and people of color (if any) to a representation that hints to a reclaim of power from these groups.

But moving from the top 6 to the top 15, only one more woman enters the field (Kara Walker), only two more non-Americans (Ai Weiwei and William Kentridge), and only three more people of color (Walker, Ai, and David Hammons).

With programs like Divvy for Everyone, Indego's equity program, BIKETOWN for All, Citi Bike for Youth, and many more, the people in this room are making sure that bike share is reaching lower income residents, people of color, women and others who have been historically underserved by transportation options.

At the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, she works to make the archetypal car - obsessed city more welcoming to cyclists and to make the cycling community more welcoming to women and people of color.

While climate change threatens the health of every American, some people are more vulnerable and are most likely to be harmed, including: infants and children; pregnant women; older adults; people with disabilities; people with pre-existing or chronic medical conditions, including mental illnesses; people with low - income; and indigenous peoples, some other communities of color, and immigrants with limited English proficiency.

«We have taken significant steps in making our profession more open to women, to persons of color, and to those who come from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds,» it says.

The focus is to get more people of color, or Native people, or women, or trans folks into your firm, and that does not result in change.

In other words, men were more likely to accept than women, and whites were more likely to accept than people of color.