Sentences with phrase «to hire more women»

Hiring more women into procurement will create a more positive, diverse and equal working environment.

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.»

For instance, Etsy, a peer - to - peer ecommerce site focused on handmade or vintage items and supplies, decided in 2011 to make hiring more women a core value of the company.

This suggests that a vast majority of men believe that the diversity problem is caused by not bringing enough women to the table - and it follows logically then that simply hiring more women would solve the problem.

If these decisions are being made by higher - ups who aren't directly responsible for conception and formulation, it means the company needs to be restructured — hire more women of color, at the very least.

Two years later, most companies are not faring much better: Consider that Facebook, which has been making an aggressive push to hire more women engineers and people of color, revealed last month that just 2 percent of its U.S. work force is black and only 4 percent is Hispanic.

Hire More Women Meet Jana Rich, an executive recruiter in Silicon Valley, who has spent years working through the thorny issues of changing the gender mix in big firms, and Eva Zlotnicka, whose research results have even the quants paying attention to how workplace gender diversity can impact investment results.

If Elon Musk can put a Tesla in space, it begs the question: Why on Earth can he not hire more women and minorities?

«Do better companies hire more women, do women choose to work for more successful companies, or do women themselves help improve companies» performance?

Voicing exasperation with what he called the homogeneous hue of the financial sector, Mr. Stringer demanded that investment funds hire more women and nonwhite employees, starting with the city's youths.

TOKYO — A government advisory committee has suggested that Japan's publicly supported universities and labs set targets for hiring more women and that the government monitor their progress and publicize the results.

Putnam also stressed Sundance's ReFrame project, an effort with the activist group Women in Film to urge movie studios toward hiring more women in behind - the - camera jobs.

So the Obama Campaign hired more women than men, put women in senior positions, and hired heads of ethnically and socially diverse constituency groups who not only looked like them, but also breathed like them.

It is important for organizations wishing to hire more women in leadership roles to evaluate the gender bias in their organization, with a first step being an audit of the compensation practices for women and men.

With so many factors to weigh, the hire Olayan truly needed was a woman who could hire more women.

It's been more than two years since Facebook and others in tech committed to hiring more women and underrepresented people of color, and so far, there is very little to show for it.

According to a recent study, one key to success is this: Hire more women.

When she took over as president (and Krzanich got the top job as CEO) in 2013, she pushed to review a decade's worth of diversity data and commissioned a new hiring program that incentivized managers to hire more women and minorities (like many technology companies, the vast majority of Intel's workforce is white and male).

Moritz, a former Time magazine journalist, went on to lament the lower numbers of women studying math and sciences as the reason why it's so difficult for the firm to hire more women — a popular excuse often used by the tech companies with low diversity numbers.

Facebook, Airbnb and Microsoft announced new plans to hire more women and minorities.

Meanwhile, Uber will have to walk carefully as it tries to hire more women, who currently make up about 22 % of the company's leadership.

JT's story remains far too common throughout the tech industry, which has talked quite a bit about diversity for the past two years but done very little to hire more women and underrepresented minorities.

To that end, Apple has committed to hiring more women and minorities and, according to the company's website, 50 percent of its new hires from July 2016 to July 2017 were from historically underrepresented groups.

A new study revealed the most diverse players in the tech sector as major companies make public efforts to hire more women and minorities.

By madness, Saintil was referring to the firestorm created by the memo written by fired Google engineer James Damore that decried the company's efforts to hire more women.

The results come as major companies make public efforts to hire more women and ethnic minorities.

Of the 14 tech companies that responded to the President's challenge, seven announced that they would attempt to hire more women and underrepresented minorities by implementing the so - called Rooney Rule.

If you decide to do the opposite and hire more women, you're therefore statistically more likely to improve the level of talent and capability of your own organization versus that of your currently clueless competitors.

In an interview with USA TODAY following the meeting, Jackson said he stressed the need for Uber to hire more women and underrepresented minorities at all levels of the company, from the board of directors and the executive team to rank - and - file workers.

MIT President Susan Hockfield says the report, based on interviews with women faculty members, demonstrates the «stunning progress» MIT has made in hiring more women and increasing their job satisfaction.

For the society it marks a turning point: a chance to hire more women and more foreign researchers, and an opportunity to open up entirely new fields of research, because incoming directors can set their own course.

Crucially, the participants have committed to staying involved in the project and will enlist an ever - growing group of advocates to work inside their organizations on articulating the business case for making changes in culture and practices to hire more women and people of color.

Statistically women are paid less than men for the exact same position and it looks like Penguin Random House wants to hire more women and minorities in order to pay their employees less for entry level positions.

Fetch Robotics is actively trying to hire more women.

Since the financial crisis erupted in 2008, there have been increasing calls around the world to hire more women in...

Since the financial crisis erupted in 2008, there have been increasing calls around the world to hire more women in finance and banking, especially at senior level.

They hired more women when they started using blind hiring methods.

Besides being charged with setting up policies to hire more women and minority firefighters, the commission must train emergency phone staffers to be more sensitive to the huge number of calls for emergency medical problems (85 percent) rather than the reporting of fires, Wilson says.