No other administration has had a Commission on Gender Equity.
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NASA is working on having gender equity in the program.
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We can't just wait for gender equity to solve itself.
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In 2014, the Coffee Quality Institute founded the Partnership for Gender Equity which published a research report including industry recommendations to promote gender equity as an institutional value, at all levels of the supply chain.
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Last year's pink and blue hues were associated with gender equity.
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"To promote gender equity and retain high-quality physicians, employers should implement policies that reduce maternal discrimination and support gender equity such as longer paid maternity leave, backup child care, lactation support, and increased schedule flexibility."
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The women have complained that the men do not support gender equity.
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She's been fighting for gender equity and workers' rights for 40 years.
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Being located in countries that are really good at gender equity overall.
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That would bring some much-needed gender equity to the pregnancy prevention pantheon.
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Just focusing on the economic dimension of gender equity, the situation is sobering.
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The Muppets will focus on special topics like inclusion, respect, and gender equity.
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Instead, Espy said, he would focus on education, gender equity and health care.
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Our summit amplified concrete solutions to achieve gender equity for women and girls.
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We have challenges in this country involving sexual violence, reproductive health, gender equity.
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A former English teacher, he's expected to focus on education and gender equity.
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Kirsten Gillibrand centered her pitch on her work in the Senate on gender equity.
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During President Obama's eight years in office, policies were established that supported gender equity.
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Rapinoe, a lesbian, is active in LGBTQ issues and is outspoken about gender equity.
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If it's reserved only for men, what message does this send about gender equity?
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"The council promises a safe and respectful environment and supports gender equity," he said.
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That would be Billie Jean, spiritual queen of the women's sports gender equity movement.
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A teacher was fired over a topless selfie, stirring a debate over gender equity.
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On its website, the foundation lists pervasive harassment as a barrier to gender equity.
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Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc.
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In 2018, nearly every major music festival was blasted for their lack of gender equity.
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In all the work we do, the idea of gender equity is part of it.
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It showed the same minute steps being made toward racial and gender equity in entertainment.
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The Allen Memorial Art Museum clearly understands the importance of the issue of gender equity.
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As McGann notes, the party has long aligned itself with gender equity and women's empowerment.
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But advocates of gender equity both in and out of the United Nations are bewildered.
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It also has benefits for babies' health, mothers' physical and mental health, and gender equity.
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They have revolved around issues such as racial justice, gender equity, immigration rights and more.
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There will also be panel discussions on gender equity and racial justice in the arts.artsforart.
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"These things are hard fought," Ms. Faris added, referring to social changes like gender equity.
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In large part because gender equity has ripple effects on growth of our human family.
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"With a lot of men, when it comes to gender equity, there's a detachment," Proudman said.
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But even larger organizations working on gender equity remain skeptical of the parties' seriousness about GBV.
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The Center for Health and Gender Equity was misnamed in an earlier version of this post.
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" He added: "The other issue that is of utmost importance to our board is gender equity.
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As investments increase, it will be key to track how the private sector advances gender equity.
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In the past year, definitions and cultural understandings of feminism, allyship, and gender equity have evolved.
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"She's got a baby, she's trying to help gender equity, particularly women of color," King said.
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Café charges men 'gender tax' Would you like a side of gender equity with your latte?
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SERRA SIPPEL, WASHINGTON The writer is president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity (Change).
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The job's duties include pushing for greater integration of gender equity in the State Department's work.
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The Women in Jazz Organization, an advocacy group pushing for gender equity, was founded last year.
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Perhaps most significantly, especially given Hollywood's gender-equity problem, writers won job protection for parental leave.
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Movement toward gender equity is driving the dissolution of rules differences between men's and women's competitions.
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It has also been shown to improve economic growth, babies' health and development, and gender equity.
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Her speech focused heavily on how her father would bring gender equity to workplaces across the country.
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Before her performance, she sent a shoutout to all those working towards gender equity around the world.
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Do they strive for gender equity, or do they support the policies and leaders that perpetuate oppression?
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Do they strive for gender equity or do they support the policies and leaders that perpetuate oppression?
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Gillibrand's policy proposals and track record highlight a focused vision on gender equity and combating sexual misconduct.
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Working with the utilities, we developed tailored action plans to incorporate gender equity into core business practices.
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It is more familiar as the law used to promote gender equity in sports and faculty hiring.
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As its first executive director, what unique views do you bring to the Commission on Gender Equity?
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These days, not asking about sexual harassment or gender equity is the rarity rather than the norm.
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Promundo, a nonprofit organization that promotes gender equity, surveyed roughly 1,300 American men between 18 and 30.
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Simultaneously, and surprisingly, advancing key areas of gender equity can help curb the emissions causing the problem.
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Garcetti got a prime speaking slot and used it to discuss gender equity and the #MeToo movement.
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"This is fundamentally about gender equity," bill co-author Assemblywoman Cristina Garcia said in remarks to the committee.
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On what's next for #MeToo#MeToo and Girls for Gender Equity are collaborating to launch a social platform.
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That said, experts acknowledge that the UK government's reporting requirements are still a positive step towards gender equity.
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Beirne Roose-Snyder is the director of public policy at the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE).
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Further, while total MBA applications declined in 2019, the gender equity percentage at business schools continues to rise.
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" Separately, Ms. Longoria told Ryan Seacrest: "We support gender equity and equal pay, and we hope that E!
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Division of labor in the home is one of the most important gender-equity issues of our time.
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Legislatures at the state and territory level, however, have made significant strides toward gender equity in recent years.
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In a sly bid for gender equity, she presents exclusively female subjects, including those figured on coin faces.
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This deal and the protest that facilitated it are a critical moment for progress in gender equity in sports.
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Now, consider the second broad dimension of the SDGs: inclusion—both in terms of income inequality and gender equity.
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Trudeau's cabinet, which then had 15 men and 15 women, had raised the profile of gender equity in politics.
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Google's findings come after the company has had to grapple with difficult issues around gender equity in the workplace.
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With their newfound fame, the team will continue supporting the expanding sextech industry and gender equity within tech generally.
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Ramírez is a long-time advocate, organizer, and attorney fighting to eliminate gender-based violence and secure gender equity.
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On issues of gender, equity, and the place of women in their organizations, the two parties remain staunchly polarized.
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Title IX, the landmark federal gender-equity law, began changing the face of college sports nearly 50 years ago.
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The world must mobilize climate solutions as quickly and fully as possible, remembering that gender equity is itself one.
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This gives the public more say and obliges builders to consider such issues as climate change and gender equity.
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Many are asking themselves — perhaps for the first time — how they can help ensure gender equity and join the movement?
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Convening panels and breakouts will address themes of gentrification, organizational transitions, collective action, race and gender equity, and critical production.
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"Government can promote programs that relate to gender equity and to empower women," said Foster Mohale, a health ministry spokesman.
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Concerns were expressed about the increase in gender equity and area representation as well why the vote was publicly recorded.
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The United Nations touts Frauen-Werk-Stadt as one of the best housing projects for gender equity in the world.
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It also creates a gender-equity problem, as universities operate under Title IX rules that ensure equal benefits for women.
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Though the N.C.A.A. has devised a superficial substitute, there are now no adequate gender-equity compliance reviews in college sports.
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Without either the N.C.A.A. or the Office for Civil Rights applying adequate pressure, gender equity has lagged in intercollegiate athletics.
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It also improves mothers' physical and mental health; the duration of breast-feeding; babies' health and development; and gender equity.
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Michigan State insufficiently complied with federal officials monitoring the university under Title IX, the gender-equity law, the report found.
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And yet true gender equity at work — in terms of leadership, pay and promotion — is still a maybe-someday ideal.
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And GoDaddy has become, surprisingly, a lodestar among gender equity advocates — an example of how even regressive cultures can change.
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From concern on campuses about rape culture to calls to close the wage gap, gender equity is a pervasive concern.
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Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the name of a fellow with the group Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity.
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Here's hoping with more women higher up on the lineup this year, we'll get closer to gender equity at music festivals.
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Underrepresented men fare better than women in all companies, though Airbnb is the closest to achieving gender equity among underrepresented groups.
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Increased attention on abortion rights and gender equity, more broadly, has prompted 2020 candidates to focus heavily on these topics. Sens.
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It's a resounding reminder of one of music's biggest problems: a continued lack of gender equity on festival billings and elsewhere.
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As part of their positions on gender equity, both Gillibrand and Sanders commit to appointing judges who would preserve Roe v.
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It could bolster candidates' bona fides on gender equity, economic inequality, and entrepreneurship for the audiences that care most about each.
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But it's shortsighted to remain in the rearguard on this issue, for reasons of gender equity as well as military strength.
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We can't talk about gender equity, diversity, or inclusivity without also considering who comes in last even under the best circumstances.
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Kirsten Gillibrand, a New York senator known for her #MeToo advocacy, is making gender equity the centerpiece of her presidential campaign.
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The executive director of UN Women said in an interview published Sunday that technology should be used to advance gender equity.
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Broadly: Can you tell me about your career leading up to becoming the executive director of the Commission on Gender Equity?
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And though the panel's title singles out gender equity as its central concern, expect race to also factor into the conversation.
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The goal, which other countries like Norway and Canada have also pursued, was to promote father-baby bonding and gender equity.
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In moderate districts and purple states, the hemorrhaging of such voters could prompt Republicans to place more focus on gender equity.
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That is due in part to Title IX, the 1972 federal law mandating gender equity in higher education, including college sports.
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Now, as the country's sex discrimination commissioner, she knew chief executives who were emphatic about gender equity, in pay and promotion.
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Likewise, promoting gender equity and diversity in coaching through mentorship, role modeling, sponsorship and opportunity should raise the bar for everyone.
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In many ways, it could act as a recruiting tool for female employees or a sign of a company's gender equity.
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She noted that when her organization tried to persuade parents to enroll their girls, abstract appeals to gender equity fell flat.
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The Canadians have also delayed progress by bringing up issues of climate change, labor safeguards, gender equity issues and so on.
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But it does more than that — Title IX is a key civil rights law that provides gender equity in education broadly.
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But whether such shows are an effective strategy for achieving gender equity in the art world is still up for debate.
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We need to put our money where our mouths are and support gender equity in tech to really turn this problem around.
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Gillibrand has made gender equity and reproductive rights a central piece of her campaign and is considered a leader on the issue.
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Adrusieczko, who was denied a scholarship based on gender, believes certain female-only scholarships can help foster gender equity in certain disciplines.
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Some experts acknowledge that legislation requiring wage transparency is a positive step towards gender equity and that other countries should follow suit.
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Research has shown that generous family leave policies positively impact (PDF) family health, parents' well-being and gender equity in the workplace.
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And Hollywood supposedly supports women's and gender equity but plainly not only exploits but exacerbates the hyper-sexualization and objectification of women.
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Mr. Guterres, the leading candidate, has repeatedly promised to promote gender equity, including appointing 50 percent of the top jobs to women.
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"A bill has been approved that opens up options for women," said Claudia Pascual Grau, Chile's minister of women and gender equity.
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I'm also proud to be part of the team that created the National Women's Law Center's new Legal Network for Gender Equity.
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A referendum item seeking to repeal more than a decade of gender equity education in Taiwan's schools is also on the ballot.
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For Democrats, confronting the paucity of women in prominent state posts is not just a matter of gender equity and public relations.
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"I would say there's a community of women in astronomy who are trying really hard to get toward gender equity," she said.
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"Fundamentally it's a speech restriction," said Beirne Roose-Snyder, director of public policy at the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE).
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"There's a meme around tech companies and Silicon Valley, around issues having to do with gender equity in tech," Ms. Naughton said.
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Nations around the world have adopted 17 Global Goals — quality education, zero hunger, gender equity and so on — to achieve by 2030.
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Burke, the program director for Brooklyn-based Girls for Gender Equity, had even spoken at rallies wearing a "me too" T-shirt.
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Mr. Guterres has been under enormous pressure to show that he can deliver gender equity in the leadership of the United Nations.
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Long a bastion for abuse, homophobia, misogyny and injury, the sporting world has started to embrace diversity, vulnerability, gender equity and activism.
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The French presidency later said it posted the video because Ivanka Trump was a keynote speaker on a session on gender equity.
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Most significant to the sisterhood of tennis writ large, Venus has followed in Billie Jean King's feminist footsteps, calling for gender equity.
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Her parents, a music teacher and a lumber worker, were Christian Scientists — a religion established by a woman who espoused gender equity.
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You can call them inclusivity riders, whatever you want to call holding companies and governments accountable to get to true gender equity.
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The label "feminist" is supposed to mark a "separation," between the people who do believe in gender equity and the people who don't.
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Urban and Kidman are working to normalize greater gender equity music, a genre which is particularly in need of a conversation about representation.
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But even in the #MeToo era, which has brought greater attention to the importance of gender equity, "we're not there yet," she says.
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Consumers who want better employment practices, less environmental pollution, better representations of people of color in advertising, gender equity in the workplace, etc.
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Yet the idea of women registering for potential military service can be unsettling to people who otherwise support the idea of gender equity.
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Increasingly, employers are realizing that promoting gender equity in the workplace is necessary to attract top talent and to enhance their bottom line.
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Adichie has done a great deal for the conversation around feminism and gender equity, and this misstep doesn't take away from those strides.
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We have created a gender equity commission, so we are really thinking very broadly about gender, and we're really thinking broadly about equity.
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He concedes that there is a bit of sexism baked into the egg-spoon wars, but for him, the issue isn't gender equity.
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In choosing get-ups, Ms. Gibes insisted on gender equity; her character had to be as empowered and recognizable as Mr. Gac-Artigas's.
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A recent McKinsey study showed that $12 trillion could be added to the global GDP by 2025 with stronger workplace gender equity practices.
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Not only that, but the forum rates the United States behind Mexico in gender equity in terms of both health and political empowerment.
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One target, though, may be regulations concerning campus sexual assault complaints under Title IX, the federal law that governs gender equity in education.
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Gender equity would make our government more representative, more collaborative, and would improve policy outcomes and build greater trust in our elected bodies.
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But over the course of two weeks, the women's team was thrust into the forefront of a fight over gender equity in sports.
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Too many Republican politicians remain in the dark ages when it comes to even the most basic dynamics of gender equity and liberation.
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There have also been whispered concerns that it has overshadowed decades of work by others long devoted to advancing the gender equity cause.
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Backstage, she told reporters that the message of greater gender equity was immediately clear to her when the nominations were announced in December.
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Dedicated to creating gender equity in American media, a number of women took to the stage to speak about this year's theme, Risk Independence.
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On top of that, they also propose a further referendum that aims to scrap more than a decade of gender equity education in Taiwan.
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To set some kind of federal standard, lawmakers will have to navigate a thicket of complex implications for tax, antitrust and gender equity laws.
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I make it a priority to ensure that there is gender equity and an inclusive work environment on every project I am involved with.
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Major film festivals in 2018 like Sundance and Cannes openly grappled with their post-Weinstein existence and matters of both harassment and gender equity.
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The summary found a serial flouting of Title IX, the federal gender-equity law, when it came to sexual assault complaints against football players.
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They rarely engage directly with critics and skeptics outside of the gender equity universe, but they have forged an alternative route to success: Networking.
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The American player Nicole Gibbs expressed her support for gender equity on Twitter and said she received praise for it in the locker room.
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We really are one of the first gender equity commissions, and I absolutely do think we will be a role model for other cities.
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Scandinavian countries have tamped down the trend by "throwing a lot into social support networks and, as important, shoring up gender equity," says Fong.
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Through her own private company, Pivotal Ventures, Ms. Gates has advocated for greater participation by women in STEM fields and other gender equity issues.
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President Trump's presumptive nominee for the Federal Reserve has written numerous pieces over the years that include disparaging statements about women and gender equity.
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It seems fair to say that none of these companies has a particularly praiseworthy record, as far as this specific gender equity metric goes.
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We have yet to have a critical discussion about gender equity and about strategies to ensure that America's working families are able to thrive.
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Nancy Lough, a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, who studies gender equity in sports, said the inclusion of women showed awareness.
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Progressive economic and climate views unite these two coalitions, while the groups are more divided when it comes to racial justice and gender equity.
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Anupama Jain is principal consultant at Inclusant, a diversity and inclusion consulting company, and executive director of the City of Pittsburgh's Gender Equity Commission.
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Republicans couldn't care less about issues like women's health, gender equity, and family outcomes, so her initiatives don't earn her any brownie points with them.
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No one expects Silicon Valley to solve this country's racial and gender equity issues all by itself, but the tech community's current approach is off.
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Between pledges to help achieve gender equity and calls for women to find personal purpose, women Golden Globe winners stole the show on Sunday night.
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On International Women's Day 2017, Meghan Markle penned an essay for Time about the global need to address menstruation as a matter of gender equity.
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DeVos is considering changes to how the department enforces the gender equity law Title IX as it pertains to school responses to sexual assault reports.
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Rachel Clement is Policy Advocate at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), which advances gender equity, inclusion and the alleviation of poverty worldwide.
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Prota also said that a client recently asked her to consult while undergoing internal issues related to gender equity on the basis of the certification.
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The 3% Movement, which advises ad agencies and brands on gender equity in the wake of #MeToo, has set its sights on the tech industry.
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Rachel Clement is Policy Advocate at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW), which advances gender equity, inclusion and the alleviation of poverty worldwide.
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All proceeds will go to Women Win, a charity that leverages the power of sport to build girls' leadership and help communities address gender equity.
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Gender equity is a brain teaser almost everywhere else, a continuing argument about conditions for growth, fairness in news media coverage and multiple other factors.
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Awareness campaigns promoting gender equity are prominent and hard-hitting, and activists have kept up sustained pressure on government to introduce legislation to protect women.
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There is plenty of evidence that enforcement of Title IX, the federal gender equity law protecting students from sexual harassment and violence, is badly flawed.
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Last December, according to the lawsuit, the orchestra's management asked her to appear in a National Geographic documentary about gender equity hosted by Katie Couric.
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The NYC Winter Jazzfest, the city's leading showcase of cutting-edge improvised music, is expanding its itinerary and issuing a new commitment to gender equity.
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However, Ms. Campoamor did express concerns that Yale's movement toward gender equity and inclusion in its senior a cappella community may stop with her admission.
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We see more companies that are putting into place policies, and starting to do more investment in work that focuses on women and gender equity.
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"Trump has no record, Pence does," said Serra Sippel, president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity, which advocates expanding women's rights, including abortion.
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Now I am a co-founder of OpenAccess, a talent strategy firm that works with companies to close the gender equity gap in the workplace.
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Despite heightened awareness of gender bias and increased calls for gender equity, most women continue to face obstacles as they try to climb the leadership ladder.
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Our company is focused on gender equity in work and business, and the right to our own bodies is absolutely critical to any pursuit of equity.
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Women have long noted the lack of gender equity in animation, a fact that is often overlooked both within the industry and by mainstream media outlets.
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The University of Melbourne is part of the SAGE pilot, which aims to overhaul gender equity practices in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
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This app has been very valuable to promote gender equity on farms and indirectly, and to help improve digital skills and literacy rates amongst our farmers.
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Forté&aposs member schools, or partners in the push for gender equity, include 54 of the top business school programs in the US, Europe, and Canada.
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Serra Sippel is president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity, which works to advance sexual and reproductive health rights for women and girls worldwide.
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" We all have an interest in a more fair society — and if only women speak up for gender equity, they may be dismissed as shrill "hyenas.
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And there has been a broad societal insistence on gender equity by Spanish women, who have taken to the streets in recent years to demand change.
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Hopkins, who continues to spend much of her time speaking about gender equity, says she's stunned to see how few women wield real influence in science.
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"Women's economic empowerment cannot happen without bodily autonomy, without reproductive health services," said Serra Sippel, the President of the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE).
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As technology and design thrust sneakers into the future with self-tying laces and 223-D-printed soles, footwear gender equity remains stuck in the past.
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It cited budgetary reasons and compliance with Title IX, the federal law mandating gender equity in higher education, which required equal athletic opportunities for college women.
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Ten countries — two more than at the Rio Games, evidence of growth in the women's sport and more gender equity — will be vying for the title.
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Janaya Khan is an activist, writer and storyteller based in Los Angeles who lectures on racial justice, culture and gender equity across the US and abroad.
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Likewise, the NWLC's Legal Network for Gender Equity connects people with local attorneys who do free legal consultations to help you understand your rights and options.
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One can, for example, be welcoming of immigrants, but demand that new arrivals accept full gender equity as a condition of living in a Western democracy.
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After Quarles declared it her mission to reach gender equity — 50/50 male and female employees — on the OpenTable product team, the company instituted several changes.
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Among its recommendations are policies that would incorporate gender equity quotas, alongside ways to encourage more of the 1.5 million Canadians with Indigenous roots into academia.
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Hinged on the idea that "it takes everyone to create real change," the campaign calls on individuals to take action in the continued fight for gender equity.
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Another raft of changes, aimed at mollifying the churches, removes much of the original politically correct language concerning "gender equity" and the rights of gays and transsexuals.
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Charol Shakeshaft, a Virginia Commonwealth University professor who does training for school administrators on gender equity laws, said schools' ignorance about Title IX is a big problem.
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It's definitely a strategy worth trying: Only around 22.1 percent of full-time Australian academics in mathematics are female, according to Science in Australia Gender Equity (SAGE).
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"Zeerak, which means 'smart' and 'talented' in both Dari and Pashto, will be featured in segments that tackle topics including tolerance, respect, and gender equity," it reads.
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The SRHR Index was compiled by the Center for Health and Gender Equity, a women's rights organization, in partnership with the George Washington University Global Women's Institute.
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Read more: The 0003% Movement, which advises ad agencies and brands on gender equity in the wake of #MeToo, has set its sights on the tech industry.
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This morning, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he has appointed Azadeh Khalili as the first ever executive director of New York City's Commission on Gender Equity.
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The controversy has erupted as the International Olympic Committee seeks to increase gender equity at the Summer and Winter Games and to appeal to a younger audience.
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The Beautywell Project partnered with the Sierra Club's Gender, Equity & Environment Program to make sure that the harmful products that people find online are not readily available.
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"The superdelegate system undermines the Democratic Party's commitment to racial and gender equity, and underrepresents the younger voters forming the future of the party," the letter adds.
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Democratic presidential hopeful Cory Booker aims to reform college sports by allowing student athletes to be paid, advancing gender equity and creating a new federal oversight commission.
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And, as a result, it could limit the discussion of important issues like climate change, gender equity, and veterans and mental health that candidates like New York Sen.
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We'll be convening, connecting, and amplifying activists in Alabama to fight for gender equity — with training tracks like women in leadership, running for office, and community organizing 101.
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More than a million people worldwide took to the streets the day after the inauguration of US President Donald Trump, in defense of women's rights and gender equity.
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There she also worked on the process of fixing HBS's gender-equity problem, and also on things like putting practices in place to put more women on boards.
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The group was brought together by the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), a US-based, UN-certified, international aid organization, and the Center for Reproductive Rights.
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Eliana E. Kim is a research assistant at the Harvard Program in Global Surgery and Social Change and co-founder of the Gender Equity in Global Surgery Initiative.
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One study of Fortune 500 companies found that firms with higher gender diversity in management had 35 percent better return on equity than firms with poor gender equity.
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Because if there were a Supreme Court presiding over global sport, the matter of gender equity as it applies to tennis would for years have been settled law.
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But when you literally look in the face of these intense talents, the question that still remains is why is there is not across the board gender equity?
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She is the executive director for strategic partnerships and brand development at Makers, a New York company that helps other companies with pay-parity and gender-equity programs.
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"Sometimes when I see the dark side of the feminists, I think she might be," he replies, rather confoundingly, given Iceland's reputation as a haven for gender equity.
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They are more likely to keep having babies after having a daughter — particularly if they are from countries with less gender equity and lower female labor force participation.
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As conversations about gender equity in the workplace continue, it's important to make sure men who have retreated post-#MeToo understand the value of the movement for them.
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Roughly less than 20 percent of financial advisers are women, a number that has barely budged for the past two decades despite rising gender equity in other fields.
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"PEPFAR stepped into the breach," declared the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE), the leading reproductive health and rights advocacy group acting as a watchdog for PEPFAR.
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LA mayor's presidential potential While he acknowledged Los Angeles is dealing with many pressing issues such as homelessness, immigration and wildfires, he said gender equity would take precedence.
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"It's all too common that when we talk about diversity and inclusion, and gender equity in the workplace, it translates to just white women," Harris told Business Insider.
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Even Google — a "top company for women technologists "— has struggled to strike a balance when it comes to how much to emphasize gender equity in hiring and pay.
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That letter recommended that sexual assault complaints investigated by colleges under Title IX, which guarantees gender equity in education, be evaluated under the "preponderance of the evidence" standard.
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Others urged the DNC to back out of holding the event at LMU because they made assumptions concerning the university's policies on health care, gender equity, and inclusiveness.
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They testify in committee hearings, they are working on a number of issues, all of which fall in some way, shape, or form under a gender equity umbrella.
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"It'll be the most restrictive and extreme abortion ban in the country," Monica Edwards, an Alabama native and fellow with the group Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity, told Vox.
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"We consider it vital for UTA to be a part of the global dialogue about gender equity and underscore its importance," said UTA CEO Jeremy Zimmer in a statement.
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The US Department of Education wants to make it easier for religious schools to reject the gender equity law Title IX, according to a leaked draft of new regulations.
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"Embedded in the content, Sesame's Muppets will model inclusion and respect, and gender equity, and they will provide engaging educational messages, always from a child's perspective," the release reads.
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"[The creams] are really based on the racism around skin tone, and colorism," said Sonya Lunder, the senior toxics advisor for the Sierra Club's gender, equity and environment program.
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Azadeh Khalili, the executive director of the Commission on Gender Equity in the mayor's office in NYC, told her own story of empowerment at the panel discussion this week.
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In 2017, Sterling hired its first female chief executive, Virginia Drosos, and has worked to achieve gender equity on its board and in the highest levels of the company.
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They've never been to the country church in Underwood, a few miles east of Fergus Falls, whose congregants are starting conversations about race, gender equity, climate change and more.
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The new version, IRIS+, is meant to translate impact investing goals like gender equity, climate change and affordable housing into results, said Amit Bouri, the chief executive of GIIN.
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They also supported the removal of gender equity content from school textbooks, which is seen as a major factor behind the strong support for gay rights among Taiwanese youth.
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A report from Arizona State University's Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology revealed that among women employed in computer science, only 12% are African-American or Latina.
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But what made this championship so special was that it came after the American players took a stand for gender equity in a sport dominated and governed by men.
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On Tuesday night, Jocelyne Lamoureux-Davidson and her twin sister, Monique Lamoureux-Morando, helped the United States women's hockey team earn a major victory for gender equity in sports.
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"Women's health and rights are now one of the first casualties of the Trump administration," said Serra Sippel, president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity in Washington.
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" In an attempt to counteract those proposals, LGBTQ advocacy groups introduced two additional referendums (14 and 33) that ask "Do you agree that the rights of same-sex couples to get married should be guaranteed by the Civil Code's marriage regulations?" and "Do you agree that gender equity education as defined under the Gender Equity Education Act should be taught at all stages of the national curriculum and include education about emotions, sex, and homosexuality?
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"; "Do you agree that the Ministry of Education and schools at the elementary and junior high level should not teach about homosexuality as detailed in the Gender Equity Education Act?
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Shannon started four months ago, at the tail end of a terrible year, as the new Gender Equity Coordinator for New York City public schools, reports Amy Zimmer for DNAinfo.
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Mr. Storey also wrote that a report by a university task force on sexual assault prevention had conflated "the issues of sexual assault, gender equity and exclusivity," the paper said.
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I think the work that we did around gender equity through the Council on Women and Girls that's now become the United State of Women, is very important to me.
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"This really feels like a tipping point," said the ESPN commentator Julie Foudy, a veteran of similar gender-equity fights a generation ago after she won a Women's World Cup.
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"Simply asking institutions to fill out this report card draws their attention to the gender equity issue, encouraging them to identify areas for improvement and make necessary changes," she said.
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"Simply asking institutions to fill out this report card draws their attention to the gender equity issue, encouraging them to identify areas for improvement and make necessary changes," she said.
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"We believe that if you can see her, you can be her," reads the slogan of the #SeeHer initiative, a gender equity campaign led by the Association of National Advertisers.
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Separately, Stephen Moore, Mr. Trump's presumptive nominee for the Federal Reserve, has written numerous published pieces over the years that include disparaging statements about women, gender equity and gay rights.
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She endorsed the evening's gender-equity platform, in part, by telling the story of Recy Taylor, a black woman from Alabama whom white men repeatedly raped one night in 1944.
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Fast-forward to the 2020 primaries, and we see much the same foreshortened and self-insulating logic of political retreat largely enveloping the question of gender equity in presidential politics.
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Also on Friday, men's events were dropped in favor of women's events in boxing, canoeing and rowing, to bring the Games closer to a stated goal of full gender equity.
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More broadly, the international movements toward gender equity by removing restrictions on abortion -- from Ireland to Poland to Argentina -- and how the United States is moving in the opposite direction.
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The Board of Regents soon hired Pepper Hamilton, a Philadelphia law firm with experience in investigating potential violations of Title IX, the federal law mandating gender equity in higher education.
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In 22015, when the gender equity law known as Title IX was enacted, women were head coaches of more than 216 percent of women's college teams across two dozen sports.
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The U.S. women's national soccer team inspired our nation by winning the World Cup — and then using their celebrity to campaign for gender equity on the soccer pitch and beyond.
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By 1994, the new Gender Equity and Education Act banned gender discrimination in classrooms; two years later, Time magazine celebrated her as one of the country's 25 most influential people.
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But without further ado, this is a topic I talk about a lot, I write about a lot, which is diversity and equity, gender equity and all kinds of issues.
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" Kleiber says the installation of these guidelines was "mind-blowing because there's never really been an international policy that insists that gender equity is important to ensuring sustainable small-scale fisheries.
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As HeForShe "Champions," 30 men (who are heads of state, business executives, and university presidents) agreed to advance gender equity in their own settings, wherever they might be in the world.
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"In terms of pregnancy related care you're already in a time crunch, especially in states that require waiting periods," says Alexis Cole, policy director for URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity.
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Major tech companies pour millions of dollars into recruiting, but there remain significant, quantifiable discrepancies—in workforce diversity, in gender equity among people of color, and in representation among top leadership.
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UN Women celebrated International Women's Day by hosting a panel featuring Reese Witherspoon and Black Panther actress Danai Gurira – two Hollywood figures fighting for gender equity in their industry and beyond.
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" Nadella has also taken a stance for workplace equity, saying at an event hosted by the Times in 2017 that progress toward gender equity in tech was "good, but not sufficient.
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"I remember when Geena Davis came here nine years ago and spoke," Ms. Lee says about the actress who became an activist, urging studios to practice gender equity in their films.
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We have finally have reached the point of gender equity where we no longer need to speak about one woman presidential candidate for a major political party in the United States.
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Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told the Associated Press that "many, many" women have been left behind in the push toward gender equity and that technology should be emphasized to close the gap.
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Her post-White House career as an author and advocate has included initiatives around gender equity, paid family leave, voting rights, the end of racial discrimination in the U.S. and more.
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So why are their wives being hosted in New York later this month by the very arm of the United Nations system devoted to promoting gender equity, known as U.N. Women?
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Gillibrand has pushed for the Democratic Party to adhere to the values it has so often touted about gender equity even if it means the downfall of one of their own.
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During her time as a candidate, she repeatedly highlighted issues tied to gender equity including the double standard that men and women face in order to be considered seriously as lawmakers.
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Previously, Burke was Senior Director at Girls for Gender Equity and has worked her whole life in nonprofits and activism, but #MeToo's recent significance has catapulted her to even more prominence.
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"No one's ability to get health care should be held hostage to an invasive procedure," Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of the group URGE: Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity, told Vox.
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Hill will expand on that message in "She Will Rise," a book that is part memoir, part gender-equity battle plan, which Grand Central Publishing plans to publish on Aug. 18.
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And they called into question the study's fundamental premise: that the correlation the authors apparently found between national gender equity and women in STEM means the former directly affects the latter.
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"She understood the movement for sexual and gender equity was a civil rights movement," says Vincent Stephens, director of the Popel Shaw Center for Race & Ethnicity at Dickinson College in Pennsylvania.
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In 2015, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights found that the university's sexual-misconduct policies had violated Title IX, the federal civil rights law governing gender equity in education.
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Nazario-Cranz said that if a manager took employees to a golf outing it wouldn't be questioned, which led to a debate about "gender equity," one person in attendance told the paper.
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The United State of Women team is committed to leading the fight for gender equity — and that includes striving to keep the Galvanize Program low cost to attendees and provide scholarship opportunities.
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"There's a meme around tech companies and Silicon Valley, around issues having to do with gender equity in tech," Google's vice president of people operations Eileen Naughton told the New York Times.
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The suit contends that because Holland Christian accepts federal funding from the US Department of Agriculture for a school lunch program, it is subject to Title IX, the federal gender equity law.
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Biden also suggested that his career working on policy to advance gender equity — including the Violence Against Women Act — served as a testament to how committed he was to changing his behavior.
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As such, given America's race relations and gender equity problems, one cannot help to ask if the backlash against her is staked in race and/or gender, or upon her prosecutorial record.
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Kim Churches is the CEO of the American Association of University Women, a national, non-partisan nonprofit that works to advance gender equity for women and girls through research, education, and advocacy.
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"The more I've been able to learn about gay rights and equal pay and gender equity and racial inequality, the more that it all intersects," Ms. Rapinoe told The Guardian in 2017.
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She spoke out earlier this year when a British documentary on gender equity revealed that John McEnroe, also a commentator at BBC, earned 10 times more she did during last year's tournament.
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"We are having a global conversation around workplaces, around the role of women and gender equity, in a way that in those three decades, I've never seen before," she said on Friday.
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Richardson also took issue with the metric used to assess each country's level of gender equity and the fact that the study did not examine trends over a long period of time.
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Cheering is dealt a setback when a judge rules that Quinnipiac University's cheerleaders cannot be counted as female athletes for purposes of Title IX, the federal law mandating gender equity in education.
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At least three other complaints against Balakrishnan had also been filed with the university's Title IX office, which handles issues of gender equity under a federal law meant to prevent sex discrimination.
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Warren certainly has the capacity to shape a campaign around vital issues that she has played a major role in promoting — middle class insecurity, income inequality, consumer protection, gender equity and more.
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And I continued to do nothing, even as I embarked on a successful career in political advocacy and pushed aggressively for public accountability in many fields, including government ethics and gender equity.
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This is an opinion piece by A. Tianna Scozzaro, Director of the Sierra Club's Gender Equity and Environment Program This past year, the realities of our healthcare system came to my family's doorstep.
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Other House-passed measures this year include the Violence Against Women Act, legislation promoting greater gender equity in pay and comprehensive legislation to expand voting rights and impose new ethics guidelines on Washington.
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Coverage of important developmental and educational activities that are led by the IJF will also be available, such as Judo for Children, Judo in Schools, gender equity, Judo for Peace, and IJF Academy.
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In addition to the Proskauer case, Sanford is representing women lawyers suing Chadbourne & Parke and Sedgwick in what The American Lawyer has described as a campaign to bring gender equity to big law.
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"If people want to identify as personally pro-life, of course that's their prerogative to do so," said Kierra Johnson, executive director of the pro-choice group Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity (URGE).
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Invoking God and the fatherland, the group has attacked immigrants who they claim come to take our jobs and crowd our hospitals and assault our women, and they've proposed slashing gender-equity policies.
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So, Democrats should be extremely wary about jettisoning the core social and cultural principles -- civil rights and gender equity -- that have animated their own base since the civil rights struggles of the 1960s.
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We asked ourselves a set of questions during that meeting and during the process that's followed: How do we create a culture and climate on our campuses that embraces and celebrates gender equity?
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Rapinoe drew the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump during the tournament by saying she and teammates would refuse to visit the White House, part of the team's wider push for gender equity.
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This year is its most female-friendly line-up yet, and the past two years, including Lady Gaga's turn as the fest's second female headliner in 2017, have shown steady progress in gender equity.
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The New York Times published a story in 2004 about varsity-level women rowers recruiting freshman to try out for the sport in an effort to satisfy Title IX legal requirements for gender equity.
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She has spoken and written about gender equity and is the founder of Know Your Value, a movement and multi-touchpoint platform meant to empower women to express their worth — both professionally and personally.
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This is the second gender equity gap report by Carta, which gathered data on equity ownership from more than 25,000 founders and 643,000 employees, in over 10,000 companies in the U.S. earlier this year.
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Kidd, a Canadian who has long pushed for gender equity in sports, noted that there are also many external variables that influence performance: access to excellent coaching, training facilities, healthy nutrition and so on.
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If you think having a child (or nine) puts a big damper on a modern woman's chances at gender equity, think about adding the constant, looming threat of death in childbirth to that mix.
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There's a lot to celebrate today: It's the third International Day for Maternal Health and Rights, a day the Center for Health and Gender Equity created two years ago to promote quality maternity care.
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They also said that despite the specific approach to calculations they'd taken, the overall correlation that they had found between nations' gender-equity levels and the number of women in STEM remained the same.
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Ms. Tchen is spearheading the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund, which is administered by the National Women's Law Center's Legal Network for Gender Equity, and will connect female victims of sexual harassment with lawyers.
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A New York senator who's long made gender equity a core plank of her political identity (and now her 2020 candidacy), Gillibrand delivered a town hall appearance that only underscored the importance of this message.
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On her role as Senior Director of Girls for Gender Equity GGE provides girls with the necessary tools needed to fight sexism, racism, interpersonal violence, institutional violence, homophobia, and transphobia in schools and on campuses.
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Including those female role models in external communications such as job descriptions and web pages is another way to attract more women, according to a 2019 USAID report on bringing gender equity to utility companies.
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"Virtually all advances in society — nutrition, education, access to contraceptives, gender equity, economic growth — show up as gains in the childhood mortality chart, and every gain in this chart shows up in gains for society."
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In terms of how it changes, it's still, by LA '553, we're at 20 percent women, and by the early '90s the IOC is beginning to move towards gender equity of events and gold medals.
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The World Health Organization's team dedicated to gender, equity, and human rights aims to "address [health] disparities (caused by gender inequalities, inequities, and lack of human rights-based approaches) to ensure better health for all."
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With stark inequalities in school, as well as in access to healthcare and jobs, the United Nations ranks French-speaking West Africa's largest economy 155 out of 159 countries when it comes to gender equity.
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Her campaigning for equal prize money for women at the Grand Slam events and with Unesco — the cultural arm of the United Nations — to promote gender equity and opportunity has been mostly behind the scenes.
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The F.B.I. has set goals to hire more women but made no recruitment plan, the Justice Department inspector general found in a June report on gender equity in federal law enforcement from 2011 to 2016.
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Litsky's appreciation and respect for minor sports — at a time when most news media outlets focused their coverage on football, basketball, baseball and hockey — extended to his early embrace of women's sports and gender equity.
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A report by Inspector General Michael Horowitz, issued on Tuesday, looked at gender equity issues across the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and the U.S. Marshals Service.
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And consistent with its approach to politics, the government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau used the start of negotiations to touch upon some of the leadership's key themes: the environment, gender equity and indigenous rights.
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In December, Rapinoe won the final soccer award of the season, the Ballon d'or, where she beat out Ada Hegerberg of Norway, who sat out the World Cup as her own protest of gender equity.
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"The superdelegate system undermines the Democratic Party's commitment to racial and gender equity, and underrepresents the younger voters forming the future of the party," the progressive groups said a letter sent to Perez this week.
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) has sought to make gender equity and family policies cornerstones of her 2020 presidential campaign, and a wide-ranging set of proposals she unveiled on Wednesday further illustrate this focus.
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Stanley "has been an international advocate for gender equity and ending sexual violence in his role as one of two U.S. university Impact Champions for the HeForShe UN Global Solidarity Movement for Gender Equality," MSU said.
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"If State Street wants to fully implement its commitment to gender equity investing, it should look for more ways to use its shareholder voice for women," said Pat Tomaino, an associate director at Zevin Asset Management.
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In the Nordic countries, which are often cited as the gold standard for gender equity, research suggests family-friendly policies are a "costly solution" and may have inadvertently created a "system-based glass ceiling" for women.
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"A right means very little when we can't afford the health care we need," Kimberly Inez McGuire, executive director of Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity (URGE), a reproductive rights group focused on young people, told Vox.
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Witnessing an election cycle shaped by sexism, racism, and a blatant double standard is a painful reminder of why the United States still ranks 76th in the world when it comes to gender equity in government.
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The Ascend Fund will finance and coordinate 70 small non-profit organizations that work toward gender equity in elected office, said Gabrielle Fitzgerald of Panorama Global, a Seattle-based non-profit that will run the fund.
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An increased presence of women in elected offices will not only advance gender equity, it will subsequently help men, because women lawmakers are proving to be, across all the issues — women's or not — more productive lawmakers.
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In the book, the authors go into detail about 10 actions that anyone and everyone can take to move towards a better future scenario, including getting involved in politics, using technology responsibly and promoting gender equity.
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In 2900, approximately 220006,2202 volunteers in Peace Corps' youth in development sector will reach over 2628,28500 young people around the world with training and activities focused on life skills, leadership, gender equity and healthy living practices.
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The biggest takeaway from the BMJ study, Linos said, is the need for initiatives that promote gender equity and support both women and parents, especially during their residencies, when they are expected to work longer shifts.
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Sony's announcement comes after a rally outside Sony Music's headquarters on Wednesday, whose participants included activists from women's groups like #MuteRKelly, Black Women's Blueprint, Care2, Color of Change, CREDO, Girls for Gender Equity, NOW-NYC, and UltraViolet.
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The proposed Title IX regulations, which were leaked late Thursday by a higher education organization, would automatically exempt religious schools and universities from having to comply with the gender equity law if they have faith-based objections.
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A separate office of the Education Department is already investigating MSU for its compliance with the gender equity law Title IX. Unlike Clery investigations, Title IX investigations usually only result in demands for policy changes, not fines.
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NASA's first attempt for an all-female spacewalk in March 2019 was called off because one of the astronauts' medium-sized spacesuits was not properly configured in advance, igniting a gender-equity debate within the space community.
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The disconnect between Trump voters and "coastal elite" technology companies has highlighted that for all their election-season bluster, the industry has plenty of work to do on diversity, gender equity, and poverty within its own ranks.
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As Gender Equity Coordinator, Shannon will focus on gender-based violence, resources for pregnant students or students who already have children, and helping girls have more access to science, engineering, technology, and math classes among other things.
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It seems likely that not all of the 1,400 "auditions" were for tech jobs — which hasn't stopped the statistic from being cited as evidence that gender equity in tech, in particular, can be achieved with résumé blinding.
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For another, we need entirely new institutions of planning and social provision, such as universal family leave and child care to help make the economy more humane, family life less exhausting, and get closer to gender equity.
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So there's reason to hope there might be some good news for gender equity coming out of Argentina, which has pledged to use its G-20 presidency to promote gender equality, women's financial inclusion and women's work.
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The details: The new Match Group Advisory Council will start with six members, including Tarana Burke, senior director of Girls for Gender Equity and the founder of the Me Too movement (well before it became a hashtag).
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Gillibrand's so-called "failure to launch" was surprising and likely tied to potential blowback related to Franken, as well as a very competitive field where her progressive positions and backing for gender equity weren't significant enough differentiators.
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And while universities have often been at the forefront of conversations about gender equity and consent, "Whether you finish your Ph.D. or not is highly dependent on the individuals who are on your committee," Ms. Phadke said.
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At least one women's organization, Supermajority, circulated a petition asking both Senator Bernie Sanders and former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to "affirm their commitment to gender equity" by choosing a woman as their running mate.
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We may think that we've decisively answered all these questions, but every answer has led to further questions about, for example, the role of wealth and privilege, the rights of minorities and the meaning of gender equity.
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In 2011, college students fed up with schools mishandling sexual misconduct allegations began organizing around the federal gender equity law, Title IX. I covered this movement starting in 2012, and in the beginning it truly felt revolutionary.
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In a marked contrast from several past debates, gender equity took center stage at Wednesday's Democratic debate, which featured wide-ranging discussion about paid family leave, abortion rights, and the higher standards that women candidates must meet.
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Carta, a venture-backed company that provides startups tools to manage their equity, released its second annual gender equity gap study last month, noting that male founders and employees still receive significantly more equity wealth than women.
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Gillibrand, in a teal blue short-sleeve dress, sparkly earrings, and a blonde bob, spent the night giving her fellow candidates a history lesson on abortion and doubling down on her platform of gender equity and family policy.
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Update: October 18, 2018: Late Monday, Alyssa Milano Tweeted again, calling attention to activist Tarana Burke, the founder of Girls for Gender Equity and woman who is credited with beginning the "Me Too" movement over a decade ago.
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"Self-injectables, like other new technologies, hold a lot of promise," says Beirne Roose-Snyder, director of public policy for the Center for Health and Gender Equity, an organization that works to protect sexual and reproductive rights globally.
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All the emotional support in the world can't make up for a lack of systemic policies that promote gender equity and reduce barriers to women's workplace success, like paid family leave benefits, flexible work schedules, and affordable childcare.
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In the long term, the heightened visibility of the issue, along with the ease of a mail-in test paired with more advanced lab capabilities, is a net positive for men's health and gender equity in reproductive treatment.
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It's not hard to see why, according to Rod Breslau's ESPN report and his previous conversations with Geguri, she expresses some discomfort and frustration with being made the centerpiece of discussions about sexism and gender equity within esports.
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Opportunities for women to participate in sports have increased greatly in the more than 40 years since the passage of the gender-equity legislation known as Title IX. But sports officials continue to struggle with matters of compensation.
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But the longtime columnist, who is in line to be nominated to the Federal Reserve Board by President Trump, has also written on a range of social topics during his career, including women's rights, gender equity and marriage.
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Just last week, Sundance announced its roster of films for the 2020 festival: Fully 46% of them are directed by women, a record-breaking stat and a bold statement that gender equity in film is making strides forward.
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Indeed in November, the SEC proposed a pair of rules that would raise the threshold for investors to call for a vote on specific issues, making it harder for them to press climate change and gender equity issues.
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They are of multiple ethnicities, languages and religions working together in universities and on community projects explicitly designed to work toward gender equity and balance with the environment after the violence and destruction of the 2015 civil war.
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As the 50th anniversary of the 1972 federal gender-equity law approaches, some of the female athletes who first benefited from it have donated millions to their alma maters to build facilities and endow scholarships and coaching positions.
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Serra Sippel is the president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) and leads the organization's advocacy efforts to advance gender equality by promoting the sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls globally.
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Harris also made gender equity a key prong of her political platform, pushing proposals that sought to curb restrictive state abortion laws, establish a federal paid family leave program and penalize companies that don't address internal wage gaps.
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Others who did attend expressed the desire to have done more than chant together — I, for one, wish we could've taken the opportunity to sign a petition for gender equity in all city-funded arts institutions, for example.
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One reason why a peace agreement between the government and the FARC, a left-wing guerrilla group, was narrowly rejected in a referendum last October was because the same campaigners objected to its use of the term "gender equity".
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Most recently, McCullough was CEO of No Ceilings: The Full Participation Project, a Clinton Foundation initiative to promote gender equity worldwide, she also served as executive director of the Tory Burch Foundation, to help female founders grow their businesses.
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In crafting the entirety of the educational experience, we are exploring the answers to a range of questions: How do we introduce students to ideas on sexuality, gender equity and identity as soon as they first arrive on campus?
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Mindful of the issue of gender equity, Mr. Guterres has promised parity in making appointments to senior posts, but has not been more specific about how he would advance the rights of women through the work of the organization.
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Later this week The Duchess will hold a round table discussion with several of the OYW young leaders to address the issue of gender equity worldwide, and how we can all play our part to reach equality for all.
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The report suggested further steps, including conducting background checks and asking questions about prior sexual harassment issues during the hiring process, retaining an outside firm to investigate complaints and conducting a study of gender equity in pay and promotions.
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In Boston, which has also made the most progress toward gender equity of any Fed bank since 2014, a decades-long history of hiring and employing women has helped with recruitment, said Joel Werkema, a spokesman for the bank.
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Kim Churches, CEO of the gender equity organization American Association of University Women and a white woman, says that women of color and those who belong to more than one marginalized group bear the brunt of gender-based microaggressions.
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The proposals, which would affect the way schools must interpret the federal Title IX gender equity law, were months in the making and contained some major surprises, including a new requirement that colleges conduct live hearings for sexual assault cases.
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Cannes leaders just signed a landmark pledge for gender equity in the film industry The new global plan to eliminate the most harmful fat in food, explained Hiring Corey Lewandowski shows Pence is just as bad as Trump on women's rights
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When you chart them all, virtually all advances in society — nutrition, education, access to contraceptives, gender equity, economic growth — show up as gains in the childhood mortality chart, and every gain in this chart shows up in gains for society.
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Today, Burke is the Senior Director of Girls for Gender Equity, a Brooklyn-based nonprofit organization working to combat harassment and abuse in schools through mentorship, extracurricular programming, and community organizing for young women and gender non-conforming people of color.
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The announcement for the strike comes via Instagram, calling for communities to "unite" for gender equity and against oppression: In the spirit of women and their allies coming together for love and liberation, we offer A Day Without A Woman.
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Cutraro says she's never thought about running for office herself, but says that her experiences as a mother, teacher and non-profit worker have motivated her to do the work that's needed in order to achieve gender equity in leadership.
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Then humor is [also] about breaking those down, and being a part of this activity, and saying there's room for us to be laughing just as much as there is room for us to be fighting equality and gender equity.
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"[Serena's] got a baby, she's trying to help gender equity, particularly women of color," King, 75, told the WTA of Williams, noting how the athlete was stretched in many directions, including working on King's own Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative.
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More attention has been paid to the makeup of corporate boards amid calls for greater gender equity in the workplace and an increased sense of urgency to change things following the #MeToo movement, a recent report from Heidrick & Struggles found.
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In addition, the AU must support Member States in adopting an official national policy or directive to encourage increased access, training and use of the Web for women and girls, with concrete, measurable targets for gender equity in this area.
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Williams, nominated for her role in All the Money in the World, will bring Tarana Burke, a gender and racial justice advocate who serves as senior director at Girls For Gender Equity and is the founder of the "#MeToo" movement.
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I want to hear about what you think about gender equity on a weekly basis because you come from a place where you are loudly proclaiming that you are a feminist and it's something that you've ... Well, not all of them.
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This practical solution to the problem of limited shipping funds added to the Biennale's sense of immediacy, with individual works confronting questions of how artists negotiate gender equity, labor and economic hardship, human rights violations, and religious and race-based discrimination.
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The findings "suggest that the executive leadership of NCAA institutions should identify organizational and social barriers to gender equity in sports medicine leadership roles," Dr. Caitlin Lewis of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio and colleagues write in JAMA Internal Medicine.
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The petition says "a large-breasted white woman of impossible proportions, scantily clad in a shimmery, thigh-baring body suit with an American flag motif and knee-high boots" is not an appropriate spokeswoman for gender equity at the United Nations.
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This could be as small as speaking up rather than remaining silent when you observe sexism or as big as getting involved with an organization or cause whose mission is gender equity (and you might even meet some good guys there).
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And the response from Kierra Johnson, executive director of URGE (Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity), a black woman and the panel's only pro-choice witness, made clear how offensive many women of color might find those remarks to be. Rep.
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Ms. Williams, who earned a Golden Globe nomination for her role in "All the Money in the World," walked the red carpet with Tarana Burke, senior director of the nonprofit Girls for Gender Equity and the founder of the #MeToo movement.
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Decades before Stevens became the fifth women's college coach to win 1,000 career games, she was a star on the rise, in the middle of the budding movement to raise the profile of the game, to promote gender equity in sports.
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The plaintiff accused the university of violating the federal gender-equity law Title IX in cultivating a climate that helped lead to her rape in 2013 by two former football players, who have since been arrested on sexual assault charges.
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That's according to a new report from gender equity watchdog Equileap, which found that the U.S. lags other developed countries when it comes to funding programs to promote gender equality in the workforce and requiring companies to report gender gap metrics.
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Sunil Gulati, the president of U.S. Soccer, portrayed the agreement as a shared victory, an "equitable" deal that he said recognized the team's achievements and kept U.S. Soccer at the forefront of the continuing fight for gender equity in soccer worldwide.
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That effort, however, reveals a contradiction in women's involvement in politics: Too much focus on gender can decrease the breadth of female candidates' appeal and their electability, but gender equity has proved impossible to achieve without women's voices championing it.
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In a phone call between the two, a video of which has nearly 2 million views on Ms. Rapinoe's Twitter account, they discuss gender equity and allude to the ongoing fight for increased wages for the national women's soccer team.
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While the country has moved steadily to the left on such social issues as same-sex marriage and gender equity, it is increasingly apparent that Democrats cannot win in much of the country without a more coherent and overriding economic message.
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Practically speaking, it's about eliminating the tampon tax, and then, in Kier's words, "the sky's the limit" — LOLA's ambitions reach from sexual wellness and gender equity to pre- and postnatal care and paid family leave (just to name a few).
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The W.T.T. remains one of the rare opportunities in pro sports for men and women to play on the same team, and gender equity is deeply important to King, even as she is selling her majority stake to male ownership.
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This practical solution to the problem of limited shipping funds added to the Biennale's sense of immediacy, with individual works confronting questions of how artists negotiate gender equity, labor and economic hardship, human rights violations, and religious and race-based discrimination.
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The 58-minute speech was delivered in the towering King Theater in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, and included topics central to Ms. Mark-Viverito's three years as speaker: criminal justice reform, immigration, gender equity and diversity in city programs.
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"A large-breasted white woman of impossible proportions, scantily clad in a shimmery, thigh-baring body suit with an American flag motif and knee-high boots" is not an appropriate spokeswoman for gender equity at the United Nations, the petition said.
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Some people may think the only way for women to tackle issues of sexual violence is to speak out publicly, but "I don't necessarily believe that," said Burke, senior director of Girls for Gender Equity in New York, which promotes girls' development.
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"This study illuminates a potentially actionable opportunity to promote gender equity in medicine," said study coauthor Dr. Reshma Jagsi, Newman Family Professor and director of the Center for Bioethics and Social Sciences in Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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Read these stories next: These Celebrities Are Urging The White House To Speak Out On Anti-LGBTQ Violence In Chechnya 53 Politicians Are Urging President Trump To Break His Silence On Chechnya Anti-Trans Activist Appointed By Trump Administration To Gender Equity Job
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What she meant is that when Georgia State created a football team in 2010, that put an immediate strain on athletic department finances but also required a rebalancing to comply with Title IX, the federal law mandating gender equity in higher education.
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Sexual misconduct inquiries like the one at Baylor have proliferated on college campuses since 2011, when the United States Department of Education advised universities that Title IX, the federal law mandating gender equity in higher education, applied to the handling of such cases.
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The National Women's Law Center will house the fund and distribute resources, including lawyers and public relations professionals that will work with the Center's Legal Network for Gender Equity "to provide assistance to those ready to stand up," the fundraiser page said.
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Mr. de Blasio, who established a commission on gender equity last year, said in his State of the City address last month that the IDNYC card had provided a transgender woman with the identification required to pick up her nephews from school.
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Graduate Workers of Columbia: We want a union so we can have a binding contract and the chance to advocate for better protections against sexual harassment and assault, gender equity, dental insurance, and basic health and safety protections at our work places.
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On Friday, Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York on behalf of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Human Rights, the Center for Health and Gender Equity, the Council for Global Equality and the Global Justice Center.
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Last year, Ms. Kowalski, 22, who is speaking publicly about her case for the first time, sued Michigan State in federal court for violating her rights under Title IX, the federal law mandating gender equity in higher education, as a Jane Doe.
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Dana Sweeney, a young organizer in Montgomery with Hometown Action, which does nonpartisan canvassing in small towns and rural areas, said the group's priorities of racial justice, gender equity, access to health care and environmental justice weren't out of place in those communities.
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The influence of daughters is consistent with previous research that shows that fathers of daughters support more egalitarian gender roles, and that male lawmakers, judges and corporate executives with daughters are more likely to support gender equity and policies that benefit women.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly 50 years after Billie Jean King and the so-called "Original Nine" began their campaign for equal prize money in tennis, the 12-times Grand Slam winner said much more progress was needed in gender equity in sport.
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Cecile Richards, Ai-jen Poo and Alicia Garza are co-founders of Supermajority and Supermajority Education Fund, a new effort to build women's power across the country by training and mobilizing a multiracial, intergenerational community who will lead the fight for gender equity.
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We should be demanding that the institutions that shape our culture — all the media, tech, journalism, and political organizations — share and implement short- and long-term plans to transform their workplace culture, including creating gender equity in their highest echelons of power.
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But other than, say, the type of things Philip and Elizabeth are asked to do (he kills more people, she has way more uncomfortable sex), being an undercover agent seems pretty okay as far as gender equity in the workplace is concerned.
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To celebrate this centennial, the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) — the oldest art museum in the United States — has been planning a major event that will champion progress toward gender equity in the art world, showcasing work by 50 to 60 women artists.
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Like some on Capitol Hill, Serra Sippel, president of the Center for Health and Gender Equity, a US-based nonprofit that promotes sexual and reproductive health and rights in the US and abroad, raised concerns that Pompeo was blurring the line between church and state.
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To be fair, Rolling Stone is not exactly a beacon of gender equity, considering that only 25 of the first 202 issues (1967–1975) featured female musicians on their cover — including 3 with Yoko Ono and one with Linda McCartney, presented alongside their husbands.
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The woman's federal lawsuit — filed on Friday in Massachusetts and provided first to BuzzFeed News — alleges that administrators at Newburyport High School violated school policies as well as Title IX, the gender equity law, after she reported the rape and subsequent harassment she experienced.
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In an era when we still seeing Michelle Williams paid pennies to the dollar as Mark Wahlberg for the same work, and where this country still hasn't elected a female president, this type of gender equity does feel like something in the realm of fantasy.
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Their fierce circle also included Michelle Williams, nominated for her role in All the Money in the World, and Tarana Burke, the gender and racial justice advocate who serves as senior director at Girls For Gender Equity and is the founder of the "#MeToo" movement.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads CLEVELAND — While there may be some folks in the art world who believe we are reaching gender equity in the representation of men and women artists in museums, most are fully aware that gender is still an issue.
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It was a feel-good story, after a fashion—the girl schools the bullies in public—but it was also one that began with a denial of her skills and achievements, and then turned her Overwatch play into a proxy battle for gender equity.
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And Americans agree: 59 percent of likely American voters said they oppose policies, like the global gag rule, that ban U.S. health assistance to organizations in other countries that provide abortions or referrals, according to a 85033 Center for Health and Gender Equity poll.
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Gender equity in NCAA sports was a key feature of federal legislation known as Title IX passed in 1972, Dr. Ann Sheehy of the School of Medicine and Public Health at the University of Wisconsin and colleagues write in an editorial accompanying the study.
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Kavita N. Ramdas is director of the Women's Rights Program at Open Society Foundations and a globally recognized advocate for gender equity and justice, previously serving as a president and CEO of the Global Fund for Women and as a senior advisor at Ford Foundation.
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Should these movements succeed, such change from within the private sector may influence the type of change the U.S. government (which itself ranks 73rd worldwide for women's political empowerment) hasn't—putting more women in power to create symbolic and substantive shifts toward true gender equity.
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But in these cases, the two modes — parent figure and accused abuser — are sides of the same coin: a male-centered, star-driven structure that saps coffers, repels gender equity and leaves ensembles at a loss when a charmed leader disappears, unexpectedly or not.
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Before heading into the White House East Room for a photo opportunity, an aide told the team, which had planned to confront Trump on his administration's gender equity policies, that Secret Service discourages visitors from handing things to the president, The Washington Post reported.
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While Mr. Macron seems to have achieved his goal of gender equity in his appointments, he was criticized for not delivering on his campaign promise to give the person responsible for women's equality a full-fledged ministry, nominating a lower-ranked state secretary instead.
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Hundreds of miles away from Doti, closer to the border with India, Rautahat district has always had it bad — the district has among the lowest literacy rates in the country, scoring low on several Human Development Index indicators like gender equity, health, and life expectancy.
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"It's first and foremost about lifting the financial burden off of people with periods; calling out laws that are archaic, unfair, and discriminatory; and helping us move toward a better model of economic parity and gender equity," Jordana Kier, founder of LOLA, tells Refinery29.
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Homophobic teasing is common, regardless of gender beliefs The numbers show that even with an understanding of gender equity, homophobic teasing -- defined in the study as using terms such as "homo" or "gay" to both friends and not -- continues to be widespread among these boys.
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And that commitment was natural, because such leftists saw those struggles as inextricable from the more general goal of social transformation along egalitarian lines; they properly understood the battles for racial and gender equity as constitutive elements of the struggle for working-class power.
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Sonia Ossorio, president of the National Organization for Women in New York City, and a commissioner on the city's Commission for Gender Equity, said inviting Mr. O'Reilly to speak at the athletic league's fund-raising luncheon sent the wrong message to the city's youth.
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With more women candidates in Congress and running for the presidency, as well as a growing societal focus on gender equity, there's also been a larger emphasis on gender-related proposals writ large, which is spurring more conversation around plans that would help address existing disparities.
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To celebrate the collaboration, Bobbi Brown Cosmetics will officially launch the The Pretty Powerful Fundon International Women's Day, March 8th, and donate money to Girls for Gender Equity, Third Wave Fund and Urgent Action Fund for Women's Human Rights, three organizations near and dear to Shahidi.
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"Companies like Microsoft know that offering paid leave isn't just the right thing to do, it's good for the bottom line, helps increase gender equity in the workforce, and allows people to stay employed and get ahead," says Ellen Bravo, co-director of Family Values at Work.
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They're the same group that is routinely denied education, denied the right to own property, denied jobs and denied any recourse after being battered, raped or married against their will — and that's why gender equity worldwide should be a top item on the social justice agenda.
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Our hope is that in the next six months, the Gender Equity Commission will be known in New York City and people will have very high expectations of us, and that we create a city which is safe for girls, women, bisexuals, transgender [people], and intersex individuals.
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Over the next five years, the festival hopes to raise the funds to cover a three-month residency for female filmmakers, classroom tools for educators interested in studying gender in cinema, and create a speaker series tackling gender equity both behind the camera and on-screen.
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Victims'-rights organizations must offer culturally specific resources and lift up the work of organizations led by black women that have long been on the front line of these issues like Black Women's Blueprint, Girls for Gender Equity, Love With Accountability, Project Nia and the Sasha Center.
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" 56 Photos View Slide Show ' Here's who you'll see on the red carpet: — Tarana Burke, senior director of the nonprofit Girls for Gender Equity and founder of the #MeToo movement, will attend with Ms. Williams, a nominee for her performance in "All the Money in the World.
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"Investors are waking up to the fact that investing with a gender equity lens is good for society and their wallet," Equileap CEO Diana van Maasdijk told CNBC Make It. Equileap ranked 2678,2798 public companies in 25 developed countries, each with a minimum $2 billion market cap.
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In response to those complaints, he said, the organization had tried to emphasize "the real-life wonder women, real-life women and girls" who would be affected by the campaign, which was meant to promote gender equity worldwide as part of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
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And perhaps, if he and his associates could still hear criticism of him as useful information in planning future strategies, that's what they'd be doing — making appointments that show how seriously they take gender equity, making announcements that show how disgusted they are by sexual harassment.
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It was all about what's happening with white middle-class and black middle-class earnings, and they've been falling for males, whereas women's earnings have been -- and I want gender equity in terms of pay and things like that, but I want to make sure everyone's wages are rising.
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More data is needed to determine if a California bill mandating gender equity on corporate boards is the right way to create meaningful results, said Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in an interview earlier this week with Squawk Box Anchor Becky Quick.
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On NTS Radio, Horton also highlighted Decibel's contributions to gender equity by striving to book at least 30-40% female-identified performers, projecting anti-sexual harassment messages on the walls of venues, and providing pocket-sized cards that dancers can give to someone in response to unwanted physical attention.
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Anita Raj, director of the Center for Gender Equity and Health at the University of California, San Diego, told USA Today that the survey should be treated with some caution due to the 94 percent figure, which she said is higher than what is typical for workplace abuses.
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And while the fact that Southern California, Pepperdine and Hawaii have teams is not surprising, it is the presence of programs at places like Georgia State, South Carolina, Nebraska and Boise State that shows how gender-equity requirements could be the most significant driver in the sport's growth.
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They recently partnered with Generations Ahead (a genetic policy nonprofit), The Health Equity Institute for Research, Practice and Policy at San Francisco State University and URGE (a reproductive rights and gender equity nonprofit) to launch a website with unbiased, evidence-based information for women considering becoming egg donors.
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She articulated the reality of what I had experienced first hand in my work -- the crisis of abortion access creating a burden on those most vulnerable, and a first hand understanding of how abortion rights and family planning was the nucleus of an honest conversation about gender equity.
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She also pointed to the company's "outstanding track record regarding gender equity in the workplace": 57 percent of its on-air talent and 52 percent of its anchors are women, she said, and that the company also has more women in off-air leadership roles than the industry average.
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Whether the topic at hand is gender equity in a multinational corporation or the diet of the future, images of Neanderthals lumbering around unspoiled nature are, as Sam Kriss pointed out in a recent essay for The Outline, readily conjured up to point out the correct path to us.
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But as the 2019 Women's World Cup came into view, FIFA repeatedly declined to confirm whether V.A.R. would be at that competition as well, turning the issue into another flash point — alongside artificial turf fields and unequal compensation and bonuses — in the broader gender equity debate in soccer.
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Shaunna Thomas, co-executive director of UltraViolet, a women's rights advocacy group, described endorsing one woman over another as "somewhat fraught," saying her group was more focused on pushing all of the candidates, male and female, to give more attention to issues like gender equity, abortion and sexism.
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However, the school wrote the following in its 2013-14 report to the Department of Education under the Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act: Florida State University (FSU) remains committed to the importance of gender equity by providing equitable opportunities to both male and female student athletes for intercollegiate athletic competition.
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Given the high profile of the scandal, Baylor had been conspicuously absent from the list of more than 200 colleges being investigated by the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights over the handling of sexual-violence cases under Title IX, which mandates gender equity at institutions of higher education.
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It was also a matter of gender equity, given that pilots are majority male, and flight attendants predominantly female (who also, according to a recent Harvard study, are at a significantly higher risk of getting breast cancer or melanoma due to exposure to radiation—and a lack of uninterrupted sleep).
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Though the reporting requirements for universities regarding acts of sexual misconduct are more comprehensive today, even in 2000, schools were on notice that they had to provide all students with a safe environment under Title IX, the federal law that mandates gender equity in education, according to some legal experts.
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Her other jobs, described by City Hall as informal or advisory, include leading the ThriveNYC effort, acting as a chairwoman of both the Commission on Gender Equity and the NYC Domestic Violence Task Force, heading up the Gracie Mansion Conservancy and acting as a member of the NYC Children's Cabinet.
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National conversations surrounding transgender rights (such as the battles over restroom laws) and gender equity (including the quest for equal pay for women and parental leave for fathers) call for examination, said Susan Goldberg, editorial director of National Geographic Partners and the first female editor in chief of the magazine.
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"Moving the dial for women's football across our confederations and beyond sits at the very heart of our vision for the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023, as well as leading the way for gender equity and creating strong role models for women in leadership," Wood said in a statement on Tuesday.
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"Black women in our country are already suffering the harms of bans on abortion coverage, and rather than improving our access to necessary health services, the new Congress is obsessed with restricting abortion and doubling down on the Hyde Amendment," said Kierra Johnson, the executive director of Unite for Reproductive and Gender Equity.
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According to the board of regents' summary of a report prepared by Pepper Hamilton, football staff members "affirmatively chose not to report sexual violence and dating violence to an appropriate administrator outside of athletics" — a direct contravention of guidelines associated with Title IX, the federal law mandating gender equity in higher education.
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"Even if the Court strikes down the Louisiana law, there are still going to be a lot of people who still don't really have access to abortion," Monica Edwards, federal policy manager at the group Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity (URGE), told me as she watched the abortion-rights rally on Wednesday.
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Lifetime has also partnered with Girls for Gender Equity, the Me Too movement, Color of Change, Black Women's Blueprint, A Long Walk Home, It's On Us, National Domestic Violence Hotline, National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Rise, Biden Foundation Crime Victims Treatment Center, No More, NJ Safe & Sound and The Joyful Heart Foundation.
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While the federal government says that under the gender equity law, Title IX, colleges and K-12 schools should inform victims of an assailant's punishment if it "directly relates to both students," the law doesn't require K-12 schools to do so, and many administrators misinterpret it to assume they are bound to secrecy.
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Earlier this month, she gave some advice to Planned Parenthood about spreading their message, and now she's partnered with the Center for Health and Gender Equity to combat the Global Gag Rule, a policy that prohibits organizations that are federally funded from using their funds for abortion-related programs, or even providing advice or referrals.
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"The company cannot be silent in the face of President Trump's policies that attack and attempt to roll back decades of progress on racial and gender equity, climate change, LGBTQ rights, and refugee and immigrant rights – all issues that have been at the core of the company's social mission for 22019 years," Ben & Jerry's said.
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An alternative to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address last month, the State of Our Union -- organized by the National Domestic Worker's Alliance, Planned Parenthood, Color of Change, Girls for Gender Equity, the #MeToo Movement, Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, MomsRising, and dozens of other organizations -- trended nationally on Twitter within 703 minutes. Nope.
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"These findings are a wake-up call to anyone in this industry who has yet to recognize the sustained effort necessary—up and down the ranks, in front of and behind the camera, in the C-suite, the mailroom and everywhere in between—to get issues of gender equity right," said Jeremy Zimmer, CEO of United Talent Agency.
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A notice-and-comment process will allow the public to submit comments on schools' handling of sexual assault cases under the gender equity law Title IX. It's a slow process that will give both sides a chance to argue for and against the 0003 directive, but ultimately, DeVos's department has the final say over the regulations.
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The Wednesday event is dubbed "Don't Shut Up." It was developed as a continuation of discussions and exhibitions last summer, from San Diego-based Feminist Image Group, and will begin with a panel conversation between Katharine Bodde of the New York Civil Liberties Union, Brittany Brathwaite of Girls for Gender Equity, and artist and blogger Joanne Mattera.
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A study on diversity in the profession released this year by the American Institute of Architects found that "women strongly believe that there is not gender equity in the industry"; that women and minorities say they are less likely to be promoted to more senior positions; and that gender and race are obstacles to equal pay for comparable positions.
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Women Today The New York Times asked some of the participants at last week's global meeting of the Women's Forum for the Economy and Society in Paris to look both backward and forward — backward at what they would have changed as they climbed up the career ladder and forward to what needs to change to create greater gender equity.
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"This trial -- and the jury's decision today -- marks a new era of justice, not just for the Silence Breakers, who spoke out at great personal risk, but for all survivors of harassment, abuse, and assault at work," said Tina Tchen, president and CEO of the Time's Up Foundation, which advocates for gender equity in the workplace.
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Read: Antarctic Dispatches For Canadians, it has a familiar ring: a youthful leader creating a cabinet with gender equity, a promise to renew government, a commitment to balance climate change with economic activity, an openness to immigration as well as diversity, a commitment to free trade and a spouse who is, among other things, a fashion trendsetter.
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In a separate article and series of blog posts on Tuesday, Richardson and her colleagues at Harvard's GenderSci Lab laid out what they saw as the significant problems with the study's methodology, including the researchers' calculations for determining the percentage of women STEM graduates and the metrics they used to assess gender equity in each country.
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The president has done nothing to allay the concerns that he is a sexist-in-chief who is dismissive of any policies that aim to achieve gender equity and who is prone to espousing the kind of "locker room talk," as he called it, that was on display in the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape that emerged during the election.
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Supermajority, which the group's website says will be a "new home for women's activism, training and mobilizing a multiracial, intergenerational community that will fight for gender equity together," was recently launched by Cecile Richards, the former president of Planned Parenthood; Alicia Garza, a co-founder of Black Lives Matter; and Ai-jen Poo, the director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance.
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"Given that Canada's foreign policy has put gender equity issues prominently at the top of its agenda, obviously this is something we wanted to highlight here: That you have a Canadian company actively undermining those rights abroad by facilitating censorship in countries where those rights aren't respected or recognized," Ron Deibert, director of Citizen Lab, told me over the phone.
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This affects economic stability for families and gender equity in society: In a two-earner household, when a caregiver is absolutely needed, economic realities and cultural norms typically dictate that it is a woman who takes unpaid leave or leaves her job, yet most households with children, whether headed by a woman or by two parents, rely on a woman's income.
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I commend Tarana Burke, an incredible advocate for gender equity, for calling attention to this last week, and Tina Tchen, who has devoted her career to working on diversity and inclusion issues, for taking the reins as president and chief executive of Time's Up. To have no discussion of working family issues in the last nationally televised debate was a huge missed opportunity.
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Barr, whose reboot of the popular sitcom "Roseanne" was canceled in 85033 after she tweeted racist comments about former Obama administration advisor Valerie JarrettValerie June JarrettComedian Roseanne Barr to speak at Trumpettes' Gala at Mar-A-Lago The Hill's Campaign Report: Biden camp faces new challenges Valerie Jarrett: Democrats' debate must include gender-equity solutions MORE, will be the featured speaker.
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Some of the people featured in the documentary, including Mr. Legend and the columnist Jamilah Lemieux, have pointed people to organizations like A Long Walk Home, a Chicago-based nonprofit working to end violence against girls and women; and Girls for Gender Equity, a nonprofit that has created a guide for viewers of the documentary, including those who are survivors of sexual assault.
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If you're a white man, and all of a sudden what you're hearing is that there's going to be gender equity across the government or across CEO boards, or that there's going to be a real effort to make sure college campuses are more diverse, one of the things you hear is there's going to be fewer places for me.
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"Wage boards not only raise wages, but they also bring workers together and help build power, as was the case recently in New York state and in the last century when they were used by other states and the federal government," he said, noting that in Australia, wage boards work to ensure a living wage, gender equity, and that wage increases keep up with productivity.
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Another recent poll, from The Washington Post/ABC News, which reported that more than half of American women had experienced "unwanted sexual advances," used a broader catchall term rather than the specific behaviors outlined in this survey, and so probably found lower numbers, said Anita Raj, director of the University of California, San Diego, Center on Gender Equity and Health, who analyzed the latest survey data.
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Speaking at the Females in IT and Telecommunications International Women's Day luncheon in Sydney Wednesday, Kate Burleigh, managing director of Intel Australia, Pip Marlow, managing director of Microsoft Australia, Tara Commerford, managing director of GoDaddy in Australia and New Zealand, Sharryn Napier, vice president and regional director at Qlik, and Dr. Susan Pond, steering committee co-chair of Science in Australia Gender Equity, all shared their own unique career paths.
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Bernie Sanders Reproductive rights are part of Sanders' broader gender equity agenda, which also covers topics such as support for the Equal Rights Amendment and Title IX. Some of his promises include to nominate judges willing to uphold women's rights, including abortion rights, and "fully fund Planned Parenthood, Title X, and other initiatives that protect women's health, access to contraception, and the availability of a safe and legal abortion."
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" Nassar's court-appointed attorneys, in a motion submitted to the Ingham County Circuit Court on Tuesday, said Aquilina used the seven-day sentencing hearing "as an opportunity to advance her own agenda, including to advocate for policy initiatives within the state as well as the federal legislatures, to push for broader cultural change regarding gender equity and sexual discrimination issues, and, seemingly, as a type of group therapy for the victims.
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" Nassar's court-appointed attorneys, in the motion submitted to the Ingham County Circuit Court last week, said Aquilina used the seven-day sentencing hearing "as an opportunity to advance her own agenda, including to advocate for policy initiatives within the state as well as the federal legislatures, to push for broader cultural change regarding gender equity and sexual discrimination issues, and, seemingly, as a type of group therapy for the victims.
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"While these findings are not surprising and reinforce the reality of gender differences in household labor responsibility versus salary generation expectations based on sex, they also demonstrate that a 6% wage gap persists even after accounting for all of these factors," said Anita Raj, author of an editorial accompanying the studies and director of the Center on Gender Equity and Health at the University of California, San Diego.
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" Nassar's attorneys argued in their July request for Nassar's resentencing and Aquilina's disqualification that the judge had demonstrated bias used the sentencing "as an opportunity to advance her own agenda, including to advocate for policy initiatives within the state as well as the federal legislatures, to push for broader cultural change regarding gender equity and sexual discrimination issues, and, seemingly, as a type of group therapy for the victims.
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Ellen Kullman, the former chief executive of DuPont, now runs Paradigm for Parity, a coalition of business leaders who commit to taking five specific steps to achieve gender equity, including training in unconscious bias; setting clear goals to increase the representation of women at every level, including the senior level, which will be measured and circulated within the company; and basing advancement on results, rather than face time at the office.
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The momentum behind the ERA has lagged since its congressional passage several decades ago, but interest in it has been rekindled in recent years — a product, in part, of a growing focus on gender equity, as Vox's Emily Stewart noted: Activists point to a number of factors contributing to the amendment's revival, including the #MeToo movement, the backlash to Donald Trump's presidency and Hillary Clinton's 2016 loss, and the number of women who have entered into the political arena as of late.
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Here is a full list of the groups to receive money: Pipeline and Leadership Development Catalyst Free the Bid International Women's Media Foundation STRIVE International Sundance Institute's Momentum program TIME'S UP Entertainment Women in Film Los Angeles Women's Media Center Training, Education and Culture Change Collaborative Fund for Women's Safety and Dignity (through Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors) Freedom Forum Institute – Power Shift Project Futures Without Violence National Women's Law Center New York Women's Foundation Press Forward Producers Guild of America Foundation Victim Support Girls for Gender Equity / The 'me too.
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Newly confirmed speakers for the 2018 Social Good Summit include: Manal Al Alem, Chef Asha Curran, Chief Innovation Officer & Director, Belfer Center for Innovation & Social Impact, 92nd Street Y Anahita Dhondy, Chef Nyle DiMarco, Model, Actor, Deaf Activist Fatima Goss Graves, President & CEO, National Women's Law Center Riyadh Khalaf, Global Ambassador, YouTube Creators for Change Roya Mahboob, Founder of EdyEdy, Co-Founder & CEO of Digital Citizen Fund Chirlane McCray, First Lady, City of New York Michael Scott Peters, United States Youth Observer, United Nations Enrica Porcari, Chief Information Officer, World Food Programme Rebecca Ruiz, Senior Features Writer, Mashable Ingrid Silva, Professional Ballerina at Dance Theatre of Harlem, Activist, Founder of EmpowHer New York Joanne Smith, Founder & Executive Director, Girls for Gender Equity For the full list of speakers, visit SocialGoodSummit.com.
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