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According to the National Science Foundation (NSF), women and racial minorities are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). [1] Scholars, governments, and scientific organizations from around the world have noted a variety of explanations contributing to this lack of racial diversity, including higher levels of discrimination, implicit bias ...
Proposition 209 (also known as the California Civil Rights Initiative or CCRI) is a California ballot proposition which, upon approval in November 1996, amended the state constitution to prohibit state governmental institutions from considering race, sex, or ethnicity, specifically in the areas of public employment, public contracting, and ...
Although all eligible students are encouraged to apply, there is an emphasis on including populations underrepresented in science—women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities. REU individual experiences typically consist of one undergraduate student, or two undergraduate students working together. Sometimes these ...
Underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the United States include women [1] and some minorities.In the United States, women made up 50% of the college-educated workers in 2010, but only 28% of the science and engineering workers.
Racial minorities, such as African Americans, Hispanics, and American Indians or Alaska Natives, also remain significantly underrepresented in the computing sector. [2] Two issues that cause the lack of diversity are: 1. Pipeline: the lack of early access to resources [3] 2. Culture: exclusivity and discrimination in the workplace [4]
The program works to improve care for the nearly 40% of California’s population that identifies as Latino by offering a professional gateway to diverse youth.
More recently concepts have moved beyond discrimination to include diversity, equity and inclusion as motives for preferring historically underrepresented groups. In the famous Bakke decision of 1978, Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, diversity now became a factor in constitutional law. The Supreme Court ruled quotas were ...
Broadly speaking, the term racial threat refers to how people react to those of a different race. [1] More specifically, the racial threat hypothesis or racial threat theory proposes that a higher population of members of a minority race results in the dominant race imposing higher levels of social control on the subordinate race, which, according to this hypothesis, occurs as a result of the ...