Sentences with phrase «of gender representation»

A highly - gendered product may only be useful to people who strongly identify not only with that gender, but also that type of gender representation.

The continued imbalance of gender representation within the arts is an issue all too often ignored.

Further, in terms of gender representation in Trecartin's work, it must be stated that cisgendered (nontransgendered) actors parodying the stereotype of another gender (eg, men wearing pink clothes and blonde wigs, women wearing flannel shirts and fake beards) do little to further our understanding of the fluidity of gender.

She powerfully subverted the clichés of gender representation, social stereotyping, fetishism and forced domestication of women.

Thus, again, if the works can't be incorporated or tamed into discourse of gender representation, nor to the terms of the new critical language of gender, racial identity, national identity politics, they also can't be reduced to the purely formal terms of the earlier discourse that had characterized painting from the late 1940s to the 1970s.

That just shows how much the Nintendo gamers still need to improve in terms of gender representation in videogames.

Last weekend, there was much criticism of gender representation in the shadow cabinet.

The memo, organised by Shadow Equalities Secretary Dawn Butler, said Labour «must ensure we maintain our current balance in terms of gender representation».

«In light of Heidi Alexander's resignation, we must ensure we maintain our current balance in terms of gender representation.

By moving in the direction of having publicly traded companies have a policy that includes consideration of gender representation on boards and in senior management, we hope that they will really take that issue seriously, that they'll consider how they're finding people to be on their boards, how they're moving women through senior management roles and making them eligible for boards appointments.

Not exact matches

Today's appointment by Independence Group of its first female board member has taken it off the list of ASX200 companies lacking female representation on their boards, although four other Western Australian businesses remain among those still to adopt gender diversity at board level.

What sort of impact will the Trudeau government's gender - balanced cabinet have on Canadian business leaders, most of whom have been reluctant to embrace the idea of setting quotas and targets for female representation?

A better representation of this reverse gender gap may be median earnings; female CEOs earned a median $ 20 million in 2015, compared to a median $ 14.5 million for the entire group.

The Equilar Gender Diversity Index looks at the female representation on the boards of the biggest companies in the United States.

«To get the full change to happen, we probably need not only greater representation of women, but we need to see also a cultural shift in organizations that really places greater value on gender equity in the workplace, and makes it more legitimate and acceptable for women to lend a helping hand to other women in the work place.»

We also want to see better media representation of all trans people, and amends to other legal documents like the Gender Recognition Act, to ensure that all trans and nonbinary people are adequately protected in law.»

Whatever the means, the end goal ought to be equal gender representation in positions of power, and not just for optics: women make more than 80 % of consumer purchases and are responsible for more than 50 % of business procurement decisions.

Our Glass Ceiling Index finds skewed gender representation and ethnic sameness in many institutions of American politics, culture and education.

In other words, while it is certainly good news that women have made major inroads into management, has the unevenness of women's representation across occupations stunted progress in closing the gender wage gap?

Gender diversity can be thought of not as the promotion of one gender over another, but rather an examination of how genders — through a balance in representation and inclusion — can broaden perspectives and drive value in different settings, including corporations that we might inveGender diversity can be thought of not as the promotion of one gender over another, but rather an examination of how genders — through a balance in representation and inclusion — can broaden perspectives and drive value in different settings, including corporations that we might invegender over another, but rather an examination of how genders — through a balance in representation and inclusion — can broaden perspectives and drive value in different settings, including corporations that we might invest in.

Once you've got a wider range of industries, you get a better representation of age, gender, regions, and experience.»

The IGOPP policy paper recommends that Canadian companies strive for a minimum of 40 % representation of both genders on their boards.

The same is true of gender and minority representation, since the expectations of the day, unfortunate as they were, didn't commonly include the belief held by many today that Parliament should look, think, and care about issues in broadly similar ways to the country at large.

Following the announcement of a parliamentary committee to study electoral reform with a special emphasis on gender equity and inclusiveness, a growing number of supporters have come on board the campaign for proportional representation.

The structure, formation of sentences and paragraphs, the use of genders, representation in various parts of sentence, style, use of idioms etc differentiate English language from Greek.

Jewish feminists challenged the accuracy of the representation of Judaism, and as a result, considerably more nuanced pictures of gender relations in both early Christianity and Judaism have been developed.

If gender is a pure social construction, then all social representation of sexuality appears as constructed, acquired, and artificial.

If gender is a pure social construction, then all social representation of sexuality is acquired and artificial.

This gender gap persists despite research that proves increasing the representation of women will boost profitability and competitiveness.

My mother's best friend has been a guidance counseller in high schools for 25 years - she says she thinks there is a far better representation of the possibilities for both genders in the media these days.

Therefore, in order to move to a proportional representation system, you would need the state officials in charge of drawing congressional districts (traditionally the state legislature) to draw districts against their own interests when it is perfectly legal to blatantly draw them in your favor (so long as you don't do so in such a way as to not explicitly dilute the power of some actual protected class, i.e. race, gender, etc.).

I don't think many women will be alarmed by the thought of their political prospects being diminshed by a smaller Commons because women, generally, aren't as interested in politics as the academic argument on gender representation makes them out to be.

«Quotas for Men: Reframing Gender Quotas as a Means of Improving Representation for All.»

An amended GMCA constitution now requires appointed portfolio holders to nominate assistant leads of a different gender to ensure balanced representation in meetings and decision - making.

The level of defeat and retrial amongst female Labour MSPs in 2011 means that unless Labour reintroduces a strategy that secures gender balance in its constituency nominations, any future recovery in the party's electoral fortunes could well be accompanied by a reduction in the overall level of female representation.

The Deputy Minister of Gender and Social Protection, Mr. Joseph Alexander Ackon has condemned the low representation of women in politics globally, saying their under representation is in violation of the democracy practiced by in various states.

Women were also underrepresented on campaigns, and Republican campaigns appeared to have a far more significant disparity in terms of both gender, and racial representation among their campaign staff.

The makeup of the powerful education policymaking panel will be drastically different, with increased racial and gender diversity and a greater representation of public school educators.

DiNapoli and the Fund are members of the Thirty Percent Coalition, which seeks greater gender diversity in public company boardrooms and has a goal of 30 percent female representation on publicly - held corporate boards.

He promised to introduce gender - equality legislation requiring an equal male / female representation in the Scottish Cabinet and on the boards of Scottish - based companies, and planned to appoint a Cabinet Minister for Women.

And while the representation of women in the professoriate increased at all levels between 2002 and 2010,» [t] his positive progress is nevertheless slow and should not mask the fact that, in the absence of proactive policies, it will take decades to close the gender gap and bring about a higher degree of gender equality.»

«I was surprised how «gender blind» the premises, analysis and conclusions were, starting with the definition of what constitutes an «elite life scientist,»» which heavily skewed the sample toward male representation, Pollitzer writes in an email to Science Careers.

Opinion and debate over this topic has, in many cases, centered on numerical references — related to proportional ethnic and gender representation — without clearly emphasizing the significance of diversity.

As the brain is responsible for our thoughts, feelings and actions, several research institutions worldwide are searching for the neural representation of gender identity.

Taylor said the under - representation of women in male - dominated occupations is a significant factor behind the gender wage gap.

The absence of women on the list has drawn attention on social media, with some researchers wondering if the result reflected a bias in Semantic Scholar's ranking algorithm, or is another expression of long - documented differences in gender representation in the biomedical sciences and scientific publishing.

Princeton philosopher Sarah - Jane Leslie and University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign psychologist Andrei Cimpian became interested in gender representation in fields that emphasize talent versus fields that emphasize work while discussing the difference between psychology and philosophy.

Co-author Prof Michelle Ryan noted: «Understanding the nature of gender differences in risk taking is particularly important as the assumption that women are risk averse is often used to justify ongoing gender inequality — such as the gender pay gap and women's under - representation in politics and leadership»

When infection rates dropped, measures of gender equality — including female wages and political representation — improved by a proportional amount between 15 and 25 years later.

Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those at the highest grade or in leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.