Sentences with phrase «women and people of color making»

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

Women and people of color made up approximately half the big study pool; of the parent subsample, about 60 percent were women, and an equivalent percentage were people of color.

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«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.

We're going to ask [these 22 female GOP representatives] for a verbal commitment that they will stand up for intersectional women's health, that we will make it clear that includes immigrants, refugees, people of color and the LGBTQ community in the United States.

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.

When Banks looked at the above diversity data for senior executives at 16 Fortune 500 companies, she was careful to point out that it need not be a depressing reminder that women and people of color — and other marginalized groups that aren't counted on the EEO - 1 Report — struggle to make it to the upper echelons of corporate America.

Jarrett's appointment makes her the third woman and fourth person of color to join the company's board.

«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.

The Bronx is made up of men, women, transgender people, people of all colors, ages and sexual orientations.

Most of all, he and the boys club at the Bronx Democratic Party are denying a voice to women and people of color who make up a growing majority of this community.

other muslim women of color all around the world are being discriminated JUST for choosing to cover their hair with a turban... and this idiot white trash of a man is making it a FASHION STATEMENT and people are ACTUALLY buying it?

Still, they succeed where it counts: Black Panther makes the Marvel Cinematic Universe a bigger, more interesting, more engaging place, one where for the first time women and people of color aren't limited to token or supporting roles.

Also on this podcast you'll also hear Karina Longworth talking about the Golden Age of Hollywood, Slate culture writer Aisha Harris (host of the show Represent) on the importance of representation of women and people of color in Hollywood and film awards, actor Paul Scheer on some of the worst movies ever made (which he talks about on his own podcast that he co-hosts with his wife, actress June Diane Raphael, and their pal and fellow actor, Jason Mantzoukas.

Don't tell me about all the advances the Academy has made, the fact that its director branch put crazy ass anti-semitic sexist abusive Mel Gibson back on the director's short list last year and gave his clunky bloody obvious war movie a best picture nomination just proves how many assholes are still lurking among the voters ready to backlash against women and people of color.

squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

Although Morgan squanders an interesting opening on a generic action finale there's nothing offensively terrible about it.This is a low - budget (8 million dollars) original sci - fi concept starring two women and multiple people of color, there's credit to be given to Scott Free Productions, 20th Century Fox, and Scott for producing a movie that seemed to approach film - making exactly the way it should be done with diversity.

Allison Janney won the Oscar but Octavia Spencer and Mary J Blige both made history: Spencer tied Viola Davis for most Oscar nominations for a woman of color (any category) and Mary J Blige is the first person ever nominated for both acting and songwriting in a single year (Barbra Streisand won Oscars in both but in different years).

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 we can make clear is that it's cool to watch an entire movie where people of color and women are strong, confident, and intelligent.

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.

Creating more content for women and people of color is not only about equality; it also makes good business sense.

This is the 90th Oscars, and a few extra nominations won't undo years of exclusion of women and people of color, Hollywood as a whole has to actively work to give more opportunities to those previously ostracized and make sure a wider range of stories get told.

As a response to the current social and political climate in the United States, the Strange Fire Collective is looking for work made by women, people of color, and LGBTQ artists that engages with issues of social justice and critically questions the dominant social hierarchy for our upcoming exhibition Call and Response: Art as Resistance.

At a time when museums are making a concerted effort to expand the cultural conversation to include more women and people of color, Mr. Hollein said it was also important to him that the Met «open up» to incorporate a range of perspectives.

In 2015, Dugan founded the Strange Fire Artist Collective to highlight work made by women, people of color, and LGBTQ artists.

With programs like Divvy for Everyone, Indego's equity program, BIKETOWN for All, Citi Bike for Youth, and many more, the people in this room are making sure that bike share is reaching lower income residents, people of color, women and others who have been historically underserved by transportation options.

At the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalition, she works to make the archetypal car - obsessed city more welcoming to cyclists and to make the cycling community more welcoming to women and people of color.

«We have taken significant steps in making our profession more open to women, to persons of color, and to those who come from racially and ethnically diverse backgrounds,» it says.

And people of color make up less than 7 percent of partners and African American women, it's less than 2 percent, I think it's 1.8 percent of partneAnd people of color make up less than 7 percent of partners and African American women, it's less than 2 percent, I think it's 1.8 percent of partneand African American women, it's less than 2 percent, I think it's 1.8 percent of partners.

The event recognizes the contributions made by women of color in business, education, entrepreneurship, entertainment, government, and public service and the impact they have made on the lives of people throughout the State of Connecticut and Western Massachusetts communities.

If you're hiring one person and you're only able to keep that one person sometimes it's a great idea to do focus groups with diverse groups of people where you specifically call in a company to help you put together a focus panel or a group of individuals that are made up of men and women and people of color, and being able to give you some perspective in your business if you're not hiring a huge team of people, so that way you get that voice of diversity and of inclusion, even if you're not able to have a large team.

Women made up 13.6 percent and people of color made up 26.5 percent of the founders.

These attacks hurt marginalized communities domestically and abroad — people of color, those who live in rural areas, those struggling to make ends meet in the U.S. and women and girls living in poverty in developing countries — the most.