Sentences with phrase «on gender equity»

Donna is a past Chair of the New York State Bar Association's COMMITTEE ON WOMEN IN THE LAW and was appointed to the New York State Bar Association President's Task Force to Develop Leadership and Diversity and the President's Task Force on Gender Equity.

The Boston workshop was led by Susan Letterman White, Chair of ABA Women Rainmakers, and was inspired by the findings in the publication titled What You Need to Know About Negotiating Compensation released by the ABA Presidential Task Force on Gender Equity and the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession.

They have been swayed by the strong «business case» you put forward based on what I laid out in the first article I wrote on gender equity on boards.

«That was the mid -»80s,» observes Laurel Bellows, co-chair of the ABA Task Force on Gender Equity and principal at the Bellows Law Group in Chicago.

The ABA's Commission on Women in the Profession provides a national voice for female lawyers, and the Task Force on Gender Equity addresses continuing gender equity issues that exist in the legal profession and in society at large.

It calls for designing adaptation programmes with a focus on gender equity, due to the key roles women play in agriculture, forest economies, biodiversity and other sectors, particularly in developing countries.

Harmony Hammond participates in the panel discussion How Women Visual Artists Shape the Arts and Contribute to Social Change organized by Women's International Study Center as a part of the series Enhancing Dialogue on Gender Equity - EDGE, at the Santa Fe Preparatory Auditorium, Santa Fe, NM.

She headed to Malawi as a Community health volunteer, focusing on gender equity projects, shortly after completing her undergraduate degree.

«The report notes that earlier governmental inquiries on gender equity focused only on the needs of girls,» says Sommers.

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These include CNBC.com, the... Silicon Valley men push back on gender equity efforts — CNBC — Many in the tech industry had previously

There's been a lot of important talk on gender equity lately — I'm speaking at a conference about equity in science and the culture surrounding setting positive role models at a young age.

The Committee on Gender Equity and Status of Women was formed to achieve the party and director's goals.

Author's note: This piece was prepared for the DAWN (Democratic Activists for Women Now) May newsletter and the Santa Clara County Democratic Party Committee on Gender Equity and Status of Women quarterly report.

(Ossorio also sits on de Blasio's New York City Commission on Gender Equity, to which she was appointed in 2016.)

At 10:15 a.m., NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio and First Lady Chirlane McCray will host a press conference to make an announcement on gender equity, Chelsea Recreation Center, 430 West 25th St., Manhattan.

How did we do on gender equity?

Chaudhry notes that no action is taken on gender equity in sports unless someone speaks up; the Department of Education is not out actively looking for violations.

Senator Kennedy on the Gender Equity in Education Act, New Republic, October 4, 1993.

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.

Sullivan seems to be everywhere in this red - hot area, whether it's backing work on gender equity in education or a push to nurture women entrepreneurs in Africa.

«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.»

Not exact matches

«There's a full section that talks about pay equity, and what is the larger impact that the gender pay gap has on our society, our economy, our families,» says Deepti Gudipati, vice president of member leadership programs for the AAUW, who is working with the city to roll out the program.

Options on the budgetary table include narrowing the pay equity gap, ensuring more gender equality in boardrooms, easing access to capital for female entrepreneurs and opening up more funding opportunities for female scientific researchers.

The 2018 budget puts a large emphasis on gender equality, including through pay equity legislation for federally regulated sectors.

The day is billed as one of protest and advocacy for gender equity organized by the activists behind the Jan. 21 Women's March on Washington.

Patti Fletcher, Ph.D., is the author of Disrupters: Success Strategies from Women Who Break the Mold (Entrepreneur Press 2018), gender equity advocate and expert authority on how to create a culture of inclusion to drive real business results.

In 2016, Natasha received the Upstart Business Journal Upstart 100 Award and the Aiming High Award from Legal Momentum for pioneering a shareholder campaign on gender pay equity.

An earlier version of the column included a paragraph on some of the company's acts of good corporate behavior, including Starbucks» recent announcement that it had achieved 100 percent pay equity across gender and race for all of its U.S. employees and its goal of opening more stores in under - served neighborhoods.

The disconnect between Trump voters and «coastal elite» technology companies has highlighted that for all their election - season bluster, the industry has plenty of work to do on diversity, gender equity, and poverty within its own ranks.

For example, business professors Cristian Deszö of the University of Maryland and David Ross of Columbia University studied the effect of gender diversity on the top firms in Standard & Poor's Composite 1500 list, a group designed to reflect the overall U.S. equity market.

She is a sought - after speaker on the topics of leading large - scale cultural change, transformational leadership, brand building, cultivating high - performance teams, creating cultures of diversity and inclusion, harnessing talent, gender equity on boards, women in the c - suite, and women in high - growth entrepreneurship.

Of particular note is a resolution seeking a report on gender pay equity — timely, given that the U.S. Department of Labor recently accused the company of «systematic compensation disparities against women.»

Shareholder proposals on pay equity at Alphabet (née Google) and Facebook are unlikely to gain majority support, but may nonetheless mark a turning point on gender inequality within the tech sector.

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.

Premier John Horgan set the tone for gender equality in B.C. by appointing 11 women to his 22 - member cabinet, and on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, appointed Esquimalt - Metchosin MLA Mitzi Dean as Parliamentary Secretary for Gender Egender equality in B.C. by appointing 11 women to his 22 - member cabinet, and on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2018, appointed Esquimalt - Metchosin MLA Mitzi Dean as Parliamentary Secretary for Gender EGender Equity.

Budget 2018 is being advertised as a truly comprehensive gender budget, with two key pieces of that being use - it - or - lose - it paternity leave, and action on pay equity.

Based on a 2016 internal study on gender pay equity, we determined that in the U.S., women employees earn 100 % of what men make in the same role.

The UN bureaucrats, Scandinavian politicos, Clinton Administration «global affairs» mavens, radical environmentalists, feminists, and population controllers who planned the conference intended it to be nothing less than the Great Cairo Turkey Shoot: a political slaughter in which the enemies of «individual autonomy,» «sustainable growth,» «global carrying capacity,» «reproductive rights,» «gender equity,» abortion - on - demand, and the sexual revolution would be utterly, decisively routed.

Everywhere in the world, societies and nations now live in a culture governed by the values of consensus, diversity, partnerships, sustainability, holism, choice, gender equity, bottom - up participation and so on.

Gender equity or equality: generally speaking there is a desire in Africa that the equal dignity of man and woman given to them by the creator be more fully honoured on that continent.

In September 2016, the NCAA asked its members to sign a non-binding pledge «to specifically commit to establishing initiatives for achieving ethnic and racial diversity, gender equity and inclusion with a focus and emphasis on hiring practices in intercollegiate athletics to reflect the diversity of our membership and our nation.»

Along the way Isleibtouches on golf - related issues such as nonconforming clubs, gender equity, women in men's events and slow play.

Under Title IX, to achieve gender parity between men's and women's sports, universities and colleges have to meet one of three different requirements: 1) equity in participation opportunities for both men and women; 2) scholarships offered proportionally based on the number of male and female athletes; and 3) comparable overall treatment of women's and men's sports (including but not limited to quality and maintenance of locker rooms and facilities, equipment and supplies, access to practice fields, publicity of teams and events, the quality of coaching, academic tutoring, traveling budgets, etc.).

The fight for gender equity in sports at Quinnipiac over the last eight years — both in court and on the ground at the university — is indicative of this overall struggle.

Large employers — already required to publish information on gender «pay equity» — should likewise have to report on «care equity», detailing who is taking family - based benefits.

I would like to see a new front opened up in the gender debate — a strong coalition of men and women who understand that expanding opportunities for men in the home and for women in the workplace are inextricably linked, and who advocate both with equal urgency, on behalf of both men and women — and who therefore argue robustly for the «next steps» in the path towards gender equality: equity in the leave entitlements for men and women.

And she stressed the importance of impressing the importance of gender equity on candidates for office and the public at large.

After hearing advocates» concerns, James said that her office is working with Brooklyn Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo on legislation pertaining to gender pay and pay equity in city agencies.

This new legislation builds on two executive orders signed by the Governor last year to eliminate the wage gap by prohibiting state entities from evaluating candidates based on wage history and requiring state contractors to disclose data on the gender, race and ethnicity of employees - leveraging taxpayer dollars to drive transparency and advance pay equity statewide.