Sentences with phrase «of gender bias within»

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While women typically face gender - discrimination or bias in traditional sources of funding like venture capital or banking, crowdfunding «enables and empowers far more female decision - makers — as project backers and «micro-VCs» — than within traditional finance,» the report argues.

The 2018 Australian Schools Gender Survey is believed to be the first of its kind in Australia, and points to consistent patterns of severe bias in hiring practices, salaries and professional development plans, a boys» club culture in some schools and behavioural prejudices against women leaders within the education sector.

Not to say that the content of the software itself won't have implicit gender bias but this levels the playing field within the context of the learning environment.

She has campaigned to stop jail expansion; confront police violence; reveal prosecutorial misconduct; bring visibility to women prisoners, political prisoners, and people confined to control units; interrupt gender discrimination and bias within prisons, policing, and sentencing; challenge the human rights abuses of prisoners, former prisoners and their family members, and experiment with decarceration models for shrinking the system.

Head of the mining practice Otsile Matlou praised her «excellent technical acumen and the unique insight she has gained due to her unparalleled practice experience» and noted that the hire would help to address the gender bias within the mining sector.

There are some immediate measures that can be taken — a few are mentioned in the CBA's Ethical Practices Self - Evaluation Tool including having interviewers and lawyers who make hiring decisions receive training on gender and racial stereotypes and the role of unconscious bias in hiring decisions; using written interviewing guidelines; having an employment equity and diversity hiring policy in place and regularly measuring diversity performance within the firm.

Schiff was featured as one of more than 120 groups participating in the «Talk It Out» initiative by the Chicago Foundation for Women to end gender bias within a generation.