Sentences with phrase «on women and minorities»

The focus is on women and minorities, who tend to be underrepresented in STEM fields.

Other events at the retreat included a workshop on immigration and visa issues and a panel discussion focused on women and minorities in science.

The Board of Directors agreed, and in 1975 expanded the Office of Opportunities in Science (OOS) to include handicapped issues along with their programs on women and minorities in science and engineering.

It showed that blatant, hateful attacks on women and minorities are still acceptable... even in 2016.

There is one difference, though (aside from the attendance of the President)-- today's event includes a particular focus on women and minority founders.

The night shined a spotlight on women and minority tech founders who are launching startups in Austin.

Not exact matches

Organized as a follow - up to January's Women's March on Washington, the one - day walk - out — called the International Women's Strike, or A Day Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wearWomen's March on Washington, the one - day walk - out — called the International Women's Strike, or A Day Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wearWomen's Strike, or A Day Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wearwomen - or minority - owned businesses) and wear red.

But the former dominatrix says the very premise all of her trainings is based on — the idea that hidden power dynamics often impact minorities and women in unfair ways — seemed totally foreign to so many would - be students five years ago when she started teaching.

U.S. companies have been under pressure to increase the role of women and minorities on their boards and top management.

The respondents said time - wasting on the Internet, intergenerational differences, integrating immigrants, and employee wardrobe choices are more serious challenges than issues affecting women and minorities.

According to Sona Wang, quoted in a Crain's Chicago Business article and general partner of Inroads Capital Partners, an Evanston venture capital firm that specializes in backing women and minorities, the venture capital business «clearly relies heavily on the old - boy network.»

By saying it will be a decade before change occurs, Williams has dealt a psychological blow to her peers who are working on diversity and to the few minorities and women who are already in the industry.

Intel announced on Tuesday that it has achieved 100 % pay equality for both women and underrepresented minorities, according to the chipmaker's 2016 diversity and inclusion report.

What attracted him to Kapor, in particular, is its emphasis on empowering minority communities: Between 2015 and 2017, the firm says it will have invested $ 40 million in startups that give women and people of color better access to technology and business opportunities.

She is one of two African - American women on the U.S. swim team (there has never been more than one at past Games) and hopes to use her success to bring more minorities into the sport.

Liberal legislation that received royal assent today means publicly traded companies are now required to disclose the number of women and others from equity - seeking groups, such as visible minorities, on their boards and in senior management.

We in the startup world need to continue to work on the inherent bias in current VC models, and make sure many more women and minority founders break into the game.

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.»

On the other hand, if you look broadly in the nation, you'll find women - owned businesses and minority - owned businesses are the fastest - growing in the economy.

The search committee, in presentations on the New York Fed's website, had touted efforts to find qualified women and minority candidates.

Participate in The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County's procurement practices through its Small / Local / Minority / Women Business Enterprise Stakeholder Group Meetings to review and comment on the SWA's Disparity Study findings and recommendations and feedback on policy options.

She was also recognized as one of the Top 100 Minority Women Business Owners by Professional Woman's Magazine and she serves on the National Advisory Board of Enterprising Women Magazine.

As one of the most active investors with diverse managers, Fairview conducted due diligence on virtually every institutional quality woman and minority - owned firm in the market in 2017, providing the Firm a unique vantage point.

Uber also has committed $ 3 million over the next three years to support organizations focused on underrepresented minorities and women in tech.

Firms targeted by activists end up with more white men on their boards, often replacing women and minorities in the process, according to a study by proxy voting firm ISS.

A growing body of empirical research indicates a significant positive relationship between firm value and the presence of women and minorities on boards.

A growing number of investors are pushing companies to include women and minorities on their corporate boards.

It's a very frequent topic and we believe strongly in Instituting the Rooney Rule — meaning that unless it's an extreme situation, we want to get women [and others from minority groups] on a company's leadership team.

As Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg and an army of like - minded souls work to change the role of women on the business side of things, others are striving to advance the role of women and minorities within the predominately male Silicon Valley engineering culture.

They pride themselves on their hatred for science, education, women, minorities, children after childbirth and attempts to restrict military guns in civilian hands.

At Dream It, we helped launch programs focused specifically on health tech, education tech, minority entrepreneurs, and women entrepreneurs.

DivInc, the Austin - based accelerator focused on helping minority and women entrepreneurs, announced Wednesday its latest cohort with 11 startups.

Our focus is on young and growing companies including start - ups, minority, and women - owned businesses that sell goods and / or services on terms to other credit - worthy and reputable businesses (private or public and local, state, and federal government agencies).

The right to vote in this country for women and minorities would seem to be as obvious as the nose on your face, yet less than 100 years ago neither group enjoyed this right.

FOX, we're sick of your disrespectful hammering on women, the middle class, the poor and every other minority in the country.

CNN: On religion, Capitol freshmen are more diverse than their incumbent colleagues The 113th Congress is being heralded for its number of women and minorities, but that diversity extends to religion, too.

Men and women and minorities and nonminorities were also compared on a wide range of measures.

Two such schools of thought have been North American process theology based on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead and liberation theology which originated in the struggles of Third World peoples for economic, political, and social independence but now has broadened to include the aspiration of minority groups (e.g., women and blacks) even within affluent First World countries.

From what I hear and see about Jesus in in America, he must be a Southern Republican, who needs some training on women, minorities, healthcare and immigration issues

He raised concerns about the GOP candidate's remarks on women, immigrants, and minorities, and went on to say that «there is too much at stake before us» to abstain from voting altogether.

Cant let it get out!!!!!!!!! Scramble, find a way to get her out of the public eye — cant have the women and minorities realizing they can do it on their own without the democrat hand outs (hand cuffs).

But while a Southern Baptist youth pastor may in fact be in the minority in his opinion on marriage and women's roles in the broader culture, he is likely in the majority in his more immediate church culture where he has the most influence and where women and LGBT people may be disadvantaged.

Recently pressures have been brought to bear on Congress and the president by blacks, the elderly, women, consumers, public employees, welfare mothers, the poor, atheists, militant students, homosexuals, Indians, and minorities of all sorts.

Jesus used his platform to create space for the bleeding woman to share her story, for the little children to come swap stories with him, and for alienated ethnic minorities to talk about their experiences and perspectives on faith.

A minority of cultivated men (and a few women) went on from grammar to rhetoric, to the «encyclical studies» which included arithmetic, music and other «liberal arts», and some ventured into philosophy.

Blue also blundered last August, in the aftermath of the Shoal Creek controversy at the PGA Championship, when he claimed that the LPGA wasn't vulnerable on the issue of holding tournaments at clubs that discriminate against women and minorities.

In addition to being the voice of Kaiser Permanente Northern California OB / GYN on Twitter and coauthor of My Pregnancy Pocket Guide, she mentors underrepresented minority women in medicine and is active in Physicians Medical Forum and Sinkler Miller Medical Association.

While reversals are sometimes possible, they're expensive, complicated, and only a minority of men and women go on to conceive again.

Since 1984, the Surgeon General's office has issued serial publications8, 9 that have focused on increasing the rates of breastfeeding initiation and duration for both healthy and vulnerable populations, eg, low birth weight (LBW; < 2500 g) infants; and low income, minority, and employed women.

Once typical of only poor and minority women, this trend doesn't seem to be slowing down, as the stigma of being a single mother has been replaced by the choice by women to have children on their own.