Sentences with phrase «of gender lens»

While the value of diverse teams and women in leadership are relatively new topics in the business world, the field of gender lens investment is even newer.

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Since women make up just 15.9 % of the board seats of Canada's 500 largest companies by revenue according to advocacy group Catalyst, investors looking to apply a gender - lens strategy may find better pickings south of the border.

Still, some worry that viewing the workplace through a gender - specific lens just leads to new stereotypes at a time when the world needs fewer of them.

Their Money Diary (M. is agender, and uses gender - neutral pronouns) was one of our most popular in recent months, providing a unique lens into the Silicon Valley tech lifestyle and tech workers who live in their vans.

The value of Schilt's work is in its use of the experiences of extraordinary people as a lens to reveal how the value of human capital — an individual's education, experience and abilities — is tied to gender perceptions.

That way, we can make salary decisions without the additional lens of gender, age, or race.

Being a woman CEO doesn't automatically make a venture an interesting investment opportunity, but there are a lot of reasons and inspiration for investing with a gender lens.

Difficult — not impossible Looking at SDGs through a gender lens matters in terms of which SDGs we expect to be new market drivers.

Pax and Pax Ellevate are pioneers in gender lens investing — the practice of integrating gender factors into investment analysis.

-LSB-...] CEO doesn't automatically make a venture an interesting investment opportunity, but there are a lot of reasons and inspiration for investing with a gender lens.

It explicitly recognizes that government needs to «stop and ask for directions» from civil society and academics, many of whom have been thinking about and analysing budgets with a gender and intersectional lens for more than 20 years.

There are new offerings, like Calvert Foundation's Women Investing in Women Initiative for fixed income and the PAX Ellevate Global Women's Index Fund or Morgan Stanley's Parity Portfolio for public equities, and initiatives like The Women Effect bringing a new community together to accelerate deployment of interested capital into gender - lens investment opportunities.

Gender lens investing is part of the broader genre of «impact investing,» a term coined by the Rockefeller Foundation in 2007 that put a name to investments made with the intention of generating both financial return and social and / or environmental impact.

early stage women - led venture capital funds in the United States investing with a gender - lens, all of which are on the East and West Coasts (there are none in the Central U.S.!).

Veris Wealth Partners produced the Women, Wealth & Impact report to demonstrate that «better companies are created by shifting the flow of wealth and power to women, whether we aim to lift women and girls out of poverty or bolster women's leadership and entrepreneurial pursuits» and Trillium's Investing for Positive Impact on Women report which presents concrete gender - lens investment examples have spurred increasing investor interest in gender lens investing across fixed income and public equities.

Still, there are currently only 6 early stage women - led venture capital funds in the United States investing with a gender - lens, all of which are on the East and West Coasts (there are none in the Central U.S.!).

While general impact investing is becoming more mainstream for high net worth individuals and institutions, gender lens investing has not benefitted from the same level of traction in the private equity and venture capital space.

bringing a new community together to accelerate deployment of interested capital into gender - lens investment opportunities.

Hosted by the San Antonio Angel Network, Dr. Sara Brand and Kerry Rupp speak to the advantages of gender - lens investments, and the benefits of gender diversity.

Through the lens of gender, race, and sexual orientation, the past can be re-read in a way that creates «communities of resistance,» which can become «liberating, transformative social movements.»

From that lens, the absence of social media policies and fraternization rules for players reflects the give - and - take of bargaining with a union, not gender - based discrimination by a league.

The media, which thrives on overdrawn, simplistic polarities, is also fated to perceive fatherhood through the lens of gender conflict.

This groundbreaking children's series features topics such as adoption, gender equality, identity, social emotional development and belonging, all through the lens of a young girl who is a huge Star Wars fan.

Avital Norman Nathman is a freelance writer whose work places a feminist lens on a variety of topics, including motherhood, maternal health, gender, and reproductive rights.

WHEREAS, women more fully can represent the needs, experience and perspective of women and can apply a gender lens to policy areas where women and poverty issues have been underrepresented, such as healthcare, transportation, education and the economy, now

Beyond the headlines and debates about gender rights witness the multidimensional lives of seven transgender and gender nonconforming individuals as told through the lens of celebrated filmmaker Silas Howard («Transparent»).

Hello Destroyer, which explores notions of Canadian identity and institutions, and gender and violence through the lens of hockey.

Constantly being passed over for the generic «white guy» fish eye lens, the equal gender has not had its fair share of representation behind the camera, and that isn't just saying the directing chair.

Films like Persona, the Before trilogy, and all of Hayao Miyazaki's filmography (aided by the ubiquitous gender discussions had around the globe), helped shape my new feminine - worshipping lens.

Vincent hopes that the numbers of women behind the lens will improve as there is increased media attention on gender equality and diversity.

After earning certification as a school psychologist at Rider University, Dr. Richmond earned her Ed.D at University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education where her dissertation investigated gender, race and class based patterns in student feedback using a relational lens and earned distinction.

Therefore, during the contextual analysis, IDRA assesses teachers» science self - efficacy for diverse students using the equity lens to ensure that all teachers are prepared in attitudes, knowledge and practice so that «no learner is denied the fair and equitable benefit of a quality, sound educational experience afforded to all other students regardless of race, gender, national origin, economic level and handicap» (Scott, 2009).

The systems and structures a school district puts into place to ensure that no learner is denied the fair and equitable benefit of a quality, sound educational experience afforded to all other students regardless of race, gender, national origin, economic level and handicap is the lens through which all of the business of the organization is filtered.

Looking at the issue of gender with a racial lens, this new area of Schott's work — including the ongoing biennial report series on Black Boys educational achievement nationwide — has led school districts across the country to re-examine how they educate and measure the outcomes of the students who are most vulnerable to failure in the education system.

A handful of exchange - traded funds on both sides of the border are capitalizing on the perceived investor need for investments chosen through the lens of gender diversity or equity.

Muttering passages she had memorized from her journal, the artist was startling and weird, challenging passersby to classify her through the lens of their own preconceptions about race, gender, and class.

Otto brings attention to the gendered lens of art history and art criticism, pinpointing a strong critical current in the exhibition.

Whether addressing issues of gender through the lens of comedy or the ways in which government monitors citizens via technology, she does so with a sensibility that is trenchant and undeniable.

A Global Gathering presents the diversity and thematic hallmarks of 21c's permanent collection, with works in a broad range of media looking at contemporary conditions through a lens of power and politics, the environment and the evolution and decay of the natural world, intersectionality and the nature of gender, and portraiture and identity, from both emerging and established artists from around the world.

Among their many peers, three women artists — Tayeba Begum Lipi (b. 1969), Dilara Begum Jolly (b. 1960) and Nazia Andaleeb Preema (b. 1974)-- explore these issues via the lens of gender.

Eregbu's artwork focuses on institutionalized and public visibility of racial and gendered bodies through a contemporary art lens.

Where Steiner uses a camera lens to not only present the self but also generate conversations around visibility, Collings - James has been using painting (and specifically the painting of animals, the insertion of language) to attend to the representation of gendered and racialised bodies, without the direct documentation or representation of these bodies.

Her photographic practice flowered in the 1980s, becoming famous for its examination of gender and race: her works juxtapose text fragments with images of African - American men and women, their faces often hidden from the lens.

Sherman's exhaustive study of portraiture and self - portraiture — often a playful mixture of camp and horror, heightened by gritty realism — provides a new lens through which to examine societal assumptions surrounding gender and the valuation of concept over style.

No subject was safe from their intuitive and enigmatic lens, from the myth of the artist, the role of mass media, and the relationship between the body and identity, to questions of gender and sexual representation, and perhaps most famously, the HIV / AIDS activism of the 1980's, a mode of critique that the group were pioneers of during an era of intense repression and governmental silence.

While some artists are ambivalent about being viewed through the lens of gender, the all - women's group show, which fell out of favor in the»80s and»90s, is flourishing again.

Anchored by recent gifts from Gund Gallery Board Member David Horvitz «74 and his wife Francie Bishop Good to the Gund Gallery Collection, this Gund Associate (intern)- curated exhibition offers a gendered lens through which to view 20th century civil rights activism so that we may better understand the roots and the aspirations of the political consciousness generated by Black liberation art, ephemera and digital culture today.

In this respect, each has highlighted and ultimately transformed the notion of impertinence or overreach, through the lens of the botanical whilst fundamentally expressing an examination of gendered perceptions of subjugation and containment.

Hirsch's practice looks at culture and gender through the lens of technology, and in usually occupying the subject in front of the lens, she deals with «personal issues with emotion, sincerity, and comical levity.»

«Dirty South,» which closes tonight (7 - 11 pm) at Mammal Gallery, brings together the work of 10 Southern artists who explore the South's seedy underbelly though various lenses, including race, gender, and sexuality.