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ACS
The ACS Scholars Program is a renewable scholarship for African-American, Hispanic/Latino and Native American undergraduate students pursuing bachelor degrees and careers in chemistry-related disciplines. Each year, between 100 and 150 new scholarship recipients are selected from across the country and receive anywhere from $1,000 to $5,000 per academic year in addition to mentoring, networking opportunities, and access to conference travel awards. High school seniors, college freshman, sophomores, juniors and seniors (that will be enrolled for 2019-2020) can visit www.acs.org/scholars for more details and to apply. Chemical engineering, biochemistry, material science, forensic science and more majors are eligible. The online application is due on March 1. Apply today!
Nature via American City Business Journals
More than 40 percent of women with full-time jobs in science leave the field or switch to part-time work after having their first child.
That's according to a study reported in the journal Nature. The research, conducted by Erin Cech, a sociologist at the University of Michigan, and Mary Blair-Loy, a sociologist at the University of California - San Diego, found that the same was true for 23 percent of men.
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JAXenter
A research study by The National Center for Women & Information Technology showed that “gender diversity has specific benefits in technology settings,” which could explain why tech companies have started to invest in initiatives that aim to boost the number of female applicants, recruit them in a more effective way, retain them for longer and give them the opportunity to advance. But is it enough?
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NBC News
Blacks and Latinos make up more than 30 percent of the U.S. population, but only 10.3 percent of medical school graduates, a number that hasn't changed much in 50 years. It's a stark reminder that even though the U.S. population is becoming more diverse, medicine isn’t.
Now, universities and community organizations around the country are working together to reverse this trend.
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Glacier Hub
Women made up less than a quarter of those employed in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) field as of 2015 in the U.S. Only 35 percent of students who pursued any related field for undergraduate, masters or PhD were women. For women of color, these numbers are significantly lower—about 10 percent. Though women are extremely underrepresented in this field, they are still there, they are there and active in recruiting young women to take part and engage in this world.
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TechRepublic
While the national unemployment rate is currently low, competition still exists for landing a job —whether a hiring manager is choosing between two candidates or 20. Competition will only become stiffer as more young people enter the job market.
More than 60 million Generation Z job seekers are expected to enter the workforce in the next few years.
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Forbes
In a recent CxOTalk series, Michael Krigsman, Industry Analyst, spoke with two female experts in the male-dominated field of IT: Jo Stewart-Rattray, Director of Information Security & IT Assurance for BRM Holdich in Australia, and Tammy Moskites, Managing Director and a security executive at Accenture who has also held CISO roles at Time Warner Cable and Home Depot. When Krigsman asked how many of their executive peers were women, Moskites replied, “13 percent of the global Fortune 500 were women, and that's not just CISOs. That's CISOs, CIOs, and senior executives such as a VP in the technology arena.
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Entrepreneur
Nine-times-out-of-ten the first contact you will have with a potential employer is via your resume. And the 750 or so words you put on it will more often than not make or break your chances of success.
So how do you ensure you create an effective resume that will put your application to the top of the pile, and not in the bottom of the trash?
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PLOS
After the slow first wave of African-American STEM societies from 1895 to 1947 (part 1), a new wave swept in at the end of the 1960s. So there have been a few golden jubilees, and more coming.
The new organizations in the ’60s and early ’70s were fueled by the energy of the Black Power, student, and civil rights movements in a tumultuous time for society and universities. The organizations they created, in turn, empowered them, changing their professions, and sometimes challenging knowledge and how their disciplines work in profound ways as well.
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HR Exchange Network
There is a hiring crisis in the United States. It has been previously reported there are currently approximately 7 million job openings, but there aren’t enough workers in America to fill those positions. Roughly 6.2-6.3 million people are looking for work.
During an interview with HR Exchange Network editor Mason Stevenson, SHRM President and HR Exchange Live: Future of Work speaker Johnny C. Taylor said that the answer to this crisis is diversity and inclusion. In fact, Taylor says there is a strong business case for hiring employees from diverse groups such as the formerly incarcerated.
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