Sentences with phrase «woman and people of color»

Aren't the exclusions of women and people of color from the mainstream narratives about painting reason enough to reject any and all of them?

It's asking its companies to do one of the few things they can do to get more women and people of color in the door.

She profoundly affected the legal profession in this country through her tireless efforts to improve opportunities for women and people of color in that profession.

This cycle, we endorsed more candidates who better reflect the diversity of our country, including more women and people of color, than ever before.

As some of the tweets above note, despite incredible films made this year by women and people of color, the prestigious Best Director category is populated solely by white men.

What better place to celebrate so many women and people of color making history.

We hoped that by accepting invitations we would learn about lawyers we missed, especially women and people of color.

The personal and institutional cost of doing nothing is high: Many junior faculty, particularly women and people of color, leave the academy in frustration.

Given the unprecedented amount of films by and about women and people of color at this year's festival, it is clear that underrepresented voices will dominate that conversation heading into 2017.

To say film critics lack relevance ignores the cyclical nature of abuse and neglect of women and people of color behind the camera.

But even today, she said, not enough women and people of color are reaching leadership ranks, and some workplaces still don't take sexual harassment and predatory behavior seriously.

For true change to happen we need film schools to see women and people of color leading classes.

For the first time EVER their acting award nominations are ONLY women and people of color.

For years, the question of why women and people of color leave law firms at a rate much higher than white men has plagued law firm leaders and administrators.

As long as opportunities in film are limited for women and people of color, there will continue to be these kinds of problems.

And as more women and people of color have been promoted into partner and leadership roles, it has correlated with increases in internal performance measures.

What's the total amount of assets under management by women and people of color?

Company executives will also participate in a twice - yearly review of diversity growth, the pipeline and efforts to increase the representation of women and people of color.

Will you get more women and people of color behind the camera as well as in front of the camera?

Guerrilla Girls is an anonymous collective of feminist women artists whose incisive social and economic commentary addresses systemic biases against women and people of color in the art world, often from within the institutional contexts their work critiques.

«I'm sure there's a good number of women and people of color who respond, and they do get the board seat,» Martin says.

But when the snubs consistently and disproportionately affect women and people of color over the old white male guard, one is forced to reckon with the fact that for all its chest thumping, Hollywood remains decades behind the times.

In their attempts to deflect criticism by redefining the problem or moving the goalposts, Facebook and Google risk discouraging young women and people of color from having ambitions of working for tech.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has been investigating the alleged discriminatory hiring practices used by studios that keep women and people of color from directing positions.

But Moonlight «s success aside, the Oscar's don't just skew disproportionally white, the type of stories that the Academy tends to recognize often center a straight white male, with women and people of color acting as side characters.

The diversity scorecard gives Uber low marks for advancing women and people of color into leadership, professional and technical positions in the company.

«I've been privileged to work with powerful women and persons of color throughout my career and it's Outlier's mission to continue to create for talented individuals going forward,» he wrote.

To keep women and people of color engaged in STEM, let's ignite an early passion for these topics, provide mentors and role models, and emphasize subject relevance.

As Reg Davis of the ABA Journal pointed out in his article about the first TBD Law meeting (TBD1), there were «few women and people of color there.»

Apart from compensating for the application and acceptance biases we noted after TBD1, we reached out to TBD Law alumni for help identifying ways we might be unconsciously discouraging women and people of color from attending.

All that really amounts to in the end is harsher judgment on women and people of color when it comes to choosing Oscar favorites.

Cooley also is holding its leadership ranks accountable for advancing women and people of color.

The wide range of cultures and characters make the game feel refreshingly diverse, prominently featuring women and people of color incidentally in non-conventional roles throughout.

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«Raising the minimum wage to $ 15 hour by 2018 in New York City is a historic victory that will have a profound impact on the lives of nearly one and a half million working families — largely women and people of color,» said Deborah Axt, co-executive director of Make the Road New York, in a statement.

Before it became a trend, DuVernay was using her talent to create inclusive work that presents women and people of color on the screen.

Earlier in the season, especially after Jordan Peele and Greta Gerwig were not nominated for best - director Golden Globe awards, it looked as if the directors» race might be tinged with injustice, a distillation of creaky prejudices about women and people of color directing movies.

Professions that once shunned talented women and people of color now have special initiatives designed to recruit them.

There are a lot of reasons why a cryptographer might want to raise money from the public, not to mention the difficulty women and people of color face when trying to launch high - tech projects.

Another TBD Law will be presented in February, with a serious effort to diversify the group beyond the few women and people of color there (I was the only black participant).

This year's winners include Grammy - award winner and the first woman and person of color to win the Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass, Rhiannon Giddens; 2014 Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Baker; Regina Barzilay, a breast cancer patient who has begun applying machine learning to the field of oncology; and Kate Orff, the first landscape architect to win the award.

Increasingly during the past two decades one could also have heard complaints that there are insufficient numbers of women and persons of color within the student body and faculty, that the school is insufficiently «pluralistic.»

The Writers Guild of America East is urging state lawmakers to expand New York's successful film and television tax credit program to include incentives for hiring women and people of color.

Senator Ruth Hassell - Thompson said: «The Emerging Managers bill intends to bring our State procurement process into the 21st Century by removing barriers that have historically prevented women and persons of color from reaching full economic parity with respect to contracting opportunities in this State.

But because she's a woman — there have been so many women and people of color who haven't been put in that hopper.

«These three engineers are seeking to ensure that Uber pays women and people of color equally for the hard work they've done — and will continue to do — to help make Uber successful,» said lawyer Jahan Sagafi of Outten & Golden which is representing the plaintiffs.

In computer science, engineering, and physics, said Klawe, «underrepresented» means women and people of color.