He conceded that this was not ideal but it was inevitable, given the overwhelming requirement to appoint «on merit» (the statutory requirement) and the scarcity of suitably
qualified women candidates.
All - male lists have been declined, obliging states to make greater efforts to find
qualified women candidates.
The reason there are so few tenured women, several department chairs say, is not discrimination but simply that there are so few
qualified women candidates in most natural sciences.
Not exact matches
A 2015 study found that
women who applied for professorships in STEM areas (excluding economics) were more likely to be hired than similarly
qualified male
candidates.
According to research published last year in Psychology of
Women Quarterly, people making hiring decisions — even those who profess to believe in gender equality — overwhelmingly associate
qualified female
candidates with diminished competence.
When we talk about affirmative action, federal law allows you to hire a
woman or minority
candidate over a male or white
candidate if both are equally
qualified.
Fewer
women sit at the C - suite and
qualified candidates are held back and denied speaking opportunities simply by the title listed on their LinkedIn accounts.
To become an FBI Special Agent,
candidates must be between the ages of 23 and 37 and successfully complete a battery of physical tests including a timed 300 - meter sprint (
women must run it in less than 65 seconds to
qualify; men, 55 seconds) and pushups (
women must do at least 14; men, 30).
To combat the myth about there being a dearth of
qualified candidates, the CBDC has compiled the Diversity 50 list of «board - ready»
women and minorities, ranging from academics to entrepreneurs to C - suite executives.
The search committee, in presentations on the New York Fed's website, had touted efforts to find
qualified women and minority
candidates.
Of course the information corporate America keeps on people is in binders but I was thinking you have to go out and specifically get binders and binder of
women to find
qualified candidates?
It is amazing how every time a
qualified WOMAN runs for anything, the media immediately starts to bash the
candidate.
A Gallup poll found that if a well -
qualified candidate happened to be a
woman, 95 % of those polled would vote for them.
While the lack of LGBTQ
women in Congress is inextricably linked to the dearth of
women on Capitol Hill, the story of lesbian
candidates includes some close calls, quixotic races, and a movement still evolving to position more
qualified LGBTQ
women to run for higher office.
One implication of all -
women PPC shortlists is that the least
qualified female potential
candidates are automatically given priority over the most
qualified male potential
candidates.
Put simply, if the proportion of
women in the Cabinet, on major company boards etc is increased, this will entail the appointment of
women who are less well -
qualified than the best male
candidates for such positions.
But no one who makes this argument can articulate what, beyond her identity as a
woman,
qualifies Clinton as a passable
candidate for socialist feminists.
Women seeking office face an array of barriers: Having the right connections for fundraising; negative campaigning focused on them as women (or an expectation that women must be the «perfect candidates»); responsibilities outside of politics, and a system that's still mostly male, making them feel like they're not qualified and don't be
Women seeking office face an array of barriers: Having the right connections for fundraising; negative campaigning focused on them as
women (or an expectation that women must be the «perfect candidates»); responsibilities outside of politics, and a system that's still mostly male, making them feel like they're not qualified and don't be
women (or an expectation that
women must be the «perfect candidates»); responsibilities outside of politics, and a system that's still mostly male, making them feel like they're not qualified and don't be
women must be the «perfect
candidates»); responsibilities outside of politics, and a system that's still mostly male, making them feel like they're not
qualified and don't belong.
The rally, headlined by Sen. Terry Gipson, Senate hopeful Justin Wagner and Assembly
candidate Andrew Falk, comes after a half - dozen
candidates for state Senate failed to
qualify for the
Women's Equality Party, the new ballot line formed this year meant to boost the package of measures proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in 2013.
Democratic Senate
candidate Adam Haber has
qualified for the ballot line created to promote the
Women's Equality Agenda, his campaign on Wednesday announced.
So that leaves Heastie and the members of his conference with a tough choice: Appoint the
qualified woman from downstate, clear the field for a bunch of other men with political ambitions, or let the
qualified woman already in office serve her time and let every interested
candidate fight it out at the ballot box.
WHEREAS, research shows that
women are substantially less likely to self - select or be recruited for elective office, this gender gap in political ambition persists across generations and over time and that
qualified female
candidates who are equally or more
qualified than men are often seen as less
qualified or less viable than male
candidates; and WHEREAS, research confirms that the presence of more
women in a governing body leads to greater transparency and a focus on progressive policies such as closing the funding and achievement gaps in education, closing gaps or loopholes in contraception coverage and affordable health care, closing the wage gap, and removing obstacles that contribute to poverty of
women & children; and
To better understand hiring dynamics, the researchers invented three hypothetical
candidates for an assistant professorship: an extremely well -
qualified woman, an extremely well -
qualified man, and a slightly less
qualified man.
A
woman applying for a tenure - track faculty position in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) at a U.S. university is twice as likely to be hired as an equally
qualified man, if both
candidates are highly
qualified, according to a new study.
A new study reports that, when faculty members rated hypothetical
candidates for a tenure - track faculty position, a highly
qualified woman is twice as likely to be hired as an equally
qualified man.
Female
candidates have to be more
qualified than their male opponents to prevail in an election because many people don't see
women as leaders, according to research that reveals hidden bias that can emerge in the voting booth.
Another example is Nixon Peabody, which has adapted its approach to recruitment — ensuring that 20 % of
candidates called are diverse (the definition of a diverse workforce for Nixon Peabody CEO and managing partner Andrew Glincher includes all — BAME,
women, LGBTQ) and first
candidate called for leadership position is diverse if equally
qualified for the position.
Indeed, even one of the individuals quoted in support of the recent developments states, «I would hope that those are
qualified candidates and that the fact that they're
women is just one consideration, albeit important.»
And it has the collateral effect of encouraging firms to start identifying and nurturing potential
candidates for these positions earlier in their careers, so that the firm will have a pipeline of
qualified women / minorities — allowing them to meet the requirements of the Mansfield Rule.