Not exact matches
Churches says men who are in a position to
hire should
not be afraid to add
more women to their team.
«
Hiring women isn't just the right thing for companies to do — it's
more profitable... and creates greater shareholder value,» Smith said.
This suggests that a vast majority of men believe that the diversity problem is caused by
not bringing enough
women to the table - and it follows logically then that simply
hiring more women would solve the problem.
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.
If these decisions are being made by higher - ups who aren't directly responsible for conception and formulation, it means the company needs to be restructured —
hire more women of color, at the very least.
Gelman says the company will use the money to
hire more employees, expand its physical footprint, invest in technology that will beef up its digital member portal, and
more importantly, add a «scholarship program» for professional
women who can't afford The Wing's rates.
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.»
I don't like when people are told to
hire women —
not because the world doesn't need
more of them heading corporate boardrooms and government cabinets — but because such pressure, in my experience, has a good chance of getting the wrong
women hired.
This is what this corporate dictator anti-freedom-of-speech Mayor Michael Bloomberg had to say about those (like the
women who were forced out of their job's of his company because they were pregnant) about whom he
hire's for his company & I quote: «I just hopefully
hire people who are a little
more responsible, that's the first thing I worry about», «I've always thought that when you work for somebody, you have an obligation to
not write a tell - all book afterwards and that's true whether you're in an administration or whether you're working for a private company».
Specifically, the authors report that
women who compete for assistant professor positions in math - intensive science fields are just as likely to be
hired as men are, if
not more so, and that
women are
not discriminated against in tenure and promotion decisions.
Their plan is
not to force
more hires but rather to meet with department chairs to create a strategy for increasing the pool of
women candidates in each discipline, starting with chemistry and the two biology departments.
This year alone, they released six of the most inventive, quality offerings out there: two terrifying survival thrillers, Damien Power's devastating and brilliant Killing Ground and Sam Patton's lesser but still - worthy Desolation; Sean Byrne's masterful tale of artistic obsession and satanic possession The Devil's Candy (all three even harder to endure because the featured families in peril are so human and likable); A Dark Song, an unnerving occult thriller in which a
woman hires a medium to help make contact with her dead daughter; and House on Willow Street, which, similar to last year's horror highlight Don't Breathe, sees a house robbery — led by a
woman with a mission, played by modern scream - queen Sharni Vinson — go terrible wrong, but this time in a
more supernatural way.
So the Obama Campaign
hired more women than men, put
women in senior positions, and
hired heads of ethnically and socially diverse constituency groups who
not only looked like them, but also breathed like them.
To
hire a «token
woman», or a
woman who isn't necessarily qualified for the job but is
hired based on her gender, is
not only a horrible business idea, it's
not fair to the other
more qualified applicants and it's
not fair to the
woman who is in a job that she can't effectively manage.
Now, on the whole, I'm
not one to go in for guilt by association: The fact that Michael E Mann's boss at the IPCC is facing sex charges for harassing
women is no
more relevant than the fact that Michael E Mann's boss at Penn State - Graham Spanier, the guy who
hired him - is under indictment for obstruction of justice, failure to report child abuse, and child endangerment.
The dark side, it would seem to me, is
not «management's predicament» of having to shuffle personnel at times, but rather the possibility that discrminatory
hiring practices have gone underground causing even
more damage in cases where
women, married men, etc. are simply
not hired in the first place.
More family members of a
woman killed by an Uber Technologies Inc self - driving vehicle have
hired legal counsel, indicating the ride services firm's legal problems may
not be over in the first fatality caused by an autonomous car.
The men and
women who
hire executive talent are busy people, and they may
not be able to spend
more than 10 seconds reviewing each resume.
Example items include: «I would
not hire a competent man /
woman as a colleague,» «I can't stand it when I meet another man /
woman who is
more attractive than I am,» «When I'm at a party, I enjoy it when men /
women pay
more attention to me than other men /
women,» «I wouldn't
hire a very ambitious man /
woman as a colleague,» and I always want to beat other men /
women.»