Sentences with phrase «women and minorities going»

This phenomenon needs to be understood by individuals, academic institutions, companies, and federal agencies who claim that they want to see the numbers of women and minorities going into science and engineering careers increase, because unfortunately «stereotype threat» is alive and well in the scientific community.

Not exact matches

The federal government says that 23 percent of all government dollars must be set aside of small businesses, and a part of that goes to minority - owned businesses (including women - owned, veteran & service - disabled veteran owned, Native American - owned, Alaskan - owned, and Native Hawaiian - owned corporations).

Google has faced criticism over its diversity practices from both sides: those who say it's not doing enough to include women and underrepresented racial minorities, and those who assert that its efforts go too far.

But without specific numbers as to what percentage of his investment went to women and / or minority - led startups (as opposed to funds), we have no way of knowing how effective these efforts are.

The flaws in this model aren't going to disappear overnight: Women and minorities will need to intentionally adapt their styles to beat the system and change it from within.

Considering one woman and one minority candidate for every job without understanding the business case for diversity — which has been proven time and time again to increase profits — isn't going to get us very far.

The grants go to women - or minority - led startups selected by Startup Runway Foundation's program and chosen by active local investors.

The survey found that 36 % of 397 independent director slots open in the 2017 proxy season went to women and 20 % to minorities.

Funny thing is that many things Christians do (deny civil rights to women, ga • ys and minorities, preach intolerance towards other religions, etc) would seem like something Satan would be in favor of... go figure, a bit ironic.

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.

«If our churches are going to be more relevant to our communities, that means increasing churches that are led by priests that are women, who come from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups,» she said.

In the treatment of blacks, ethnic minorities, and women we still have far to go, but it would be hard to argue that we were better in these respects at any earlier period in our history.

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.

Unless you have a reasonable argument that finding more ways to add women and minorities to the pool from which worthy candidates get chosen to lead baseball teams is going to harm the game.

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

«We have fought long and hard in this country to let minorities and women to be able to vote, poor people, rich people and we can't go backwards, we won't go backwards,» said Zellner.

And should it be used to persecute a minority that is simply seeking equal rights?If you are going to selectively use your Bible to justify hating homosexuals and our quest for marriage equality, then why do you happen to ignore many many other parts of the Bible such as: the Biblical support of slavery (Luke 12:47 - 48, Ephesians 6:5, 1 Timothy 6:1 - 2), selling your daughters into slavery (Exodus 21:7 - 11), Biblical Incest (Genosis 19:36), Biblical polygamy (1 Kings 11:3), Forbidding women to speak in church (I Cor 14:34 - 35), stoning stubborn children (Duet 21:18 - 2), stoning your daughter if she loses her virginity out of wedlock (Deut 22:20 - 21) or killing the children born out of affairs (Rev 2:22 - 2And should it be used to persecute a minority that is simply seeking equal rights?If you are going to selectively use your Bible to justify hating homosexuals and our quest for marriage equality, then why do you happen to ignore many many other parts of the Bible such as: the Biblical support of slavery (Luke 12:47 - 48, Ephesians 6:5, 1 Timothy 6:1 - 2), selling your daughters into slavery (Exodus 21:7 - 11), Biblical Incest (Genosis 19:36), Biblical polygamy (1 Kings 11:3), Forbidding women to speak in church (I Cor 14:34 - 35), stoning stubborn children (Duet 21:18 - 2), stoning your daughter if she loses her virginity out of wedlock (Deut 22:20 - 21) or killing the children born out of affairs (Rev 2:22 - 2and our quest for marriage equality, then why do you happen to ignore many many other parts of the Bible such as: the Biblical support of slavery (Luke 12:47 - 48, Ephesians 6:5, 1 Timothy 6:1 - 2), selling your daughters into slavery (Exodus 21:7 - 11), Biblical Incest (Genosis 19:36), Biblical polygamy (1 Kings 11:3), Forbidding women to speak in church (I Cor 14:34 - 35), stoning stubborn children (Duet 21:18 - 2), stoning your daughter if she loses her virginity out of wedlock (Deut 22:20 - 21) or killing the children born out of affairs (Rev 2:22 - 23).

But no, in order to get the motion passed quickly (or even at all) and in order not to push out the vocal minority who were unhappy about the change, we decided to settle for a fudge: the church would have women priests but promised to maintain the existence of those who wanted to go on in blissful ignorance of our existence or be paid off if they felt they had to leave.

When David Cameron says he wants to broaden representation in Parliament, that does not just extend to women and black and minority ethnic (BME) members, it goes right across the spectrum of interests and backgrounds.

The man Mayor Bill de Blasio put in charge of boosting the percentage of city contracts going to minority - and women - owned business enterprises says he's drawing on the skills he learned for his last big task — rolling out the city's universal prekindergarten program.

I would go even further than David Cameron - I would fast track even more talented women and ethnic minority candidates into the seats currently held by our Bedblocker MPs - about 25 % of the Parliamentary Party the last time I looked.

It will recommend strategies to increase the share of state business going to firms owned by women and minorities to 20 percent.

In 2014, Cuomo established a 30 - percent goal for the percentage of contracts going to minority - and women - owned businesses, after the state reported it had exceeded the 20 percent goal he proposed during his first State of the State address in 2011.

Poloncarz wants to ensure that the vast majority of those jobs go to county residents and help women and minorities, especially in the construction trades.

The Bloomberg administration's plan to give more city contracts to firms owned by women and minorities resulted in just 7 percent of revenue going to black - owned companies, the Wall Street Journal reports, while the bulk went to companies owned by Asian - Americans or white women.

These findings prompted de Blasio to launch a new plan to increase the percentage of contracting dollars going to women - and minority - owned firms to 30 percent, and to place Deputy Mayor for Strategic Initiatives Richard Buery in charge of it.

The U.S. National Science Foundation has a long way to go in attracting more minority students and women into science and engineering doctoral programs, according to a new report on one of NSF's flagship training programs.

Furthermore, she went on to say that few women and minorities pursue research science careers and so I should seriously consider becoming a professor or working in industry.

More groups are going to bat for underrepresented minorities in science and engineering, the most recent being a Sloan Foundation pretenure faculty fellowship program, a National Academy of Engineering summit on women in engineering, and a new federal Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Tminorities in science and engineering, the most recent being a Sloan Foundation pretenure faculty fellowship program, a National Academy of Engineering summit on women in engineering, and a new federal Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and Technowomen in engineering, and a new federal Commission on the Advancement of Women and Minorities in Science, Engineering and TechnoWomen and Minorities in Science, Engineering and TMinorities in Science, Engineering and Technology.

It is important that all students see diverse faculty members, which leads me to the second reason you might want to consider a PWI over an HBCU: Majority students need to see minority professors in their classrooms if they're going to develop healthy respect for minorities (and women!)

Unfortunately, these hardcore gals still seem to be the minority within the fitness - oriented population of women, since most women in gyms around the country are still following some old - fashioned, obsolete approaches to fitness and won't go anywhere near the weight room — and if they do, they will pick nothing heavier than a pair of pink, 5 - pound dumbbells.

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As we all know, the people who write on the Internet about comics are a tiny, tiny, tiny portion of the audience, and while they often clamor for diversity and Marvel responds to them, is there a large influx of young women, minorities, queer, and trans people going into comics shops and buying those diverse titles or at least getting them digitally or in trade?

And according to data from the SBA, SBA loans are three to five times more likely to go to women and minority - owned small businessAnd according to data from the SBA, SBA loans are three to five times more likely to go to women and minority - owned small businessand minority - owned small businesses.

«I was just so pissed off,» Avvy Yao - Yao Go, a well - known social justice activist and lawyer, wrote in the Toronto Star after Justice Minister Peter MacKay made comments at a recent Ontario Bar Association meeting that women and visible minorities aren't applying for judge jobs and that's why they're under - represented on the bench.

«We have trained a very bright generation of women and minority lawyers who have gone to our corporate clients and who now decide whether to hire us,» Mr. Hanlon said.

The very obvious subtext reads: We're happy to work with politically repressive states with lots of oil revenue on commercial legal information but in no way are we going to threaten perceived future revenues by actually publishing legal information that might relate for example to Women's Rights, The Rights Of Religious Minorities, The Rights Of Foreign Workers, Family Law and so on and so forth.

More than $ 100m (# 81m) of Microsoft's legal spend since 2010 has gone to women and minority - owned law firms, the company's chief legal officer has announced.

This article originally appeared in the March 2016 issue of the ABA Journal with this headline: «Invisible then Gone: Minority women are disappearing from BigLaw — and here's why.»

We also work very hard to make sure that our session speakers are diverse as well and so we will have — I think we are going to have parity right now between women and minorities and your kind of normal White male speakers that you see in a lot of other conferences, because we want our conference to reflect legal profession and we know that the legal profession is more than just any single type of person, just like there is no single type of law.

A Washington Post «Wonkblog» called, «In one corner of the law, minorities and women are often valued less,» presents a very a troubling aspect of our civil justice system when a case goes to trial or settles:

John, If women (and the other minorities) are the majority in law schools, but don't find these career paths appealing, then simply as a matter of statistics the best and brightest will not be going to these firms.

In a world where pay equality is a major point of contention, the new overtime regulations go a long way in helping women and minority workers.

They've tried to cut funding in every way possible: by illegally preventing Planned Parenthood health centers from serving patients enrolled in Medicaid, or serving patients through essential programs such as Title X, and they've also gone after our participation in specific initiatives like the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program; the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA); the Minority AIDS Initiative; and STI prevention programs.