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).
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.»
Not exact matches
The «pipeline problem» is the theory
there simply aren't enough properly skilled members
of underrepresented groups for hire — including
women,
people of color, veterans
and members
of the LGBTQ community.
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.
In addition to civil rights for
people of color,
women and LGBT,
there has been an expansion
of religious liberty for minority sects, enforcement
of viewpoint neutrality with respect to access to various public
and non-public forums (e.g. religious student groups must be granted equal access to school facilities as their secular counterparts, etc) greater protections against age
and disability discrimination,
and recognition
of habeas corpus rights even for enemy combatants.
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.»
Of the 2014 14 - member Board of Directors, there were four women and five persons of colo
Of the 2014 14 - member Board
of Directors, there were four women and five persons of colo
of Directors,
there were four
women and five
persons of colo
of color.
There are many chefs deserving
of profiles on bonappetit.com,
and we have chosen to feature primarily
women, many
of them
people of color, first
and foremost because they're extremely talented
people we think our readers need to know about.
But when I learned Summers thought
there might be a «genetic» explanation for a lack
of scientific capability on the part
of women and people of color (especially African - Americans), I began to think twice about whether Harvard is the place for me.
There's been lots of talk about the underrepresentation of women and people of color as directors in the entertainment industry as a whole (see the NYT Sunday cover magazine issue, the Forbes article, the Variety article about the 7 % statistic, Jennifer Lawrence speaking out, etc) and specifically about the underrepresentation of women in the major categories at the Oscars but there is no public discourse about this also being a pervasive problem in the documentary category, this despite the fact that in the past 20 years only one female director (Laura Poitras) and one female co-director (Zana Briski) won in the Best Documentary Feature cate
There's been lots
of talk about the underrepresentation
of women and people of color as directors in the entertainment industry as a whole (see the NYT Sunday cover magazine issue, the Forbes article, the Variety article about the 7 % statistic, Jennifer Lawrence speaking out, etc)
and specifically about the underrepresentation
of women in the major categories at the Oscars but
there is no public discourse about this also being a pervasive problem in the documentary category, this despite the fact that in the past 20 years only one female director (Laura Poitras) and one female co-director (Zana Briski) won in the Best Documentary Feature cate
there is no public discourse about this also being a pervasive problem in the documentary category, this despite the fact that in the past 20 years only one female director (Laura Poitras)
and one female co-director (Zana Briski) won in the Best Documentary Feature category.
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.
And that, as a result, if there is to be any hope of meaningful progress in Hollywood as a result of #MeToo's revelations, such progress will have to come not merely through the ad - hoc punishment of abusive behavior, but also through a wholesale transformation of the Hollywood system, both at its foundations and in its echelons: more women and people of color in positions of leadersh
And that, as a result, if
there is to be any hope
of meaningful progress in Hollywood as a result
of #MeToo's revelations, such progress will have to come not merely through the ad - hoc punishment
of abusive behavior, but also through a wholesale transformation
of the Hollywood system, both at its foundations
and in its echelons: more women and people of color in positions of leadersh
and in its echelons: more
women and people of color in positions of leadersh
and people of color in positions
of leadership.
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.
There were more
women, more
people of color,
and more LGBTQ characters.
The hard truth is that
there have been 17 Marvel movies (including Spider - Man: Homecoming, Marvel's joint venture with Sony),
and none
of them have had a
woman or
person of color as the titular or central character.
There are still fans who are pointing out that those defending Hammer should also defend
women and people of color:
Knowing that
there are
people out
there who are going to not only sneer at anything I write just because I'm female (
and prone to writing heroines
of color,
women in positions
of power,
and queer
people), but who will actively work to shout down anything I
and authors like me try to do.
There's a reason we're so enthusiastic about characters, developers, publishers, writers,
and critics who are
women,
people of color, LGBTQIA,
and of all different cultures
and backgrounds being in or part
of video games: because wider experiences broaden everyone's perspective.
Half
of the show is
women and people of color;
there are no art stars or heavy footprints
of mega-galleries or the market.
Rather, their goal is to prohibit
people enrolled in Medicaid from going to Planned Parenthood as their provider
of choice, regardless
of whether alternative sources
of care are available.17 These attacks ignore the fact that
women choose to obtain family planning services from Planned Parenthood health centers because
of the high - quality services they receive
there.18 Moreover, by targeting Medicaid enrollees, these attacks are once again squarely aimed at the most disadvantaged
women, including low - income
women and women of color.
I'm shocked that in your multipage article about the movers
and shakers in the industry (November 1997, page 23),
there are no
women or
people of color.