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The barriers to careers in STEM that people of color and traditionally underrepresented groups face need to be broken down.

Jamaal Bowman

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Jamaal Bowman
American - Politician
Born: April 1, 1976

Underrepresented employees already have to overcome discriminatory barriers in their careers; they shouldn't be expected to volunteer their time to help their companies do the same.

Susan Wojcicki

The STEM fields play an increasingly important role in the U.S. economy, but women are still underrepresented in most STEM sectors.

Elizabeth Esty

From what we understand about participation by women and minorities, we need to do a better job of exposing people early in their careers to STEM fields.

Cory Gardner

The climate is much different for men. That stigma is only going to be broken when people come out and see that there is a positive response. That doesn't mean there will be no negative response, but if people can have the courage to be one of the first, which is very hard, those barriers can be broken down very quickly.

Megan Rapinoe

Now, more then ever, we have the ability to make films for almost nothing and that's broken down all barriers of entry. I think it's a new golden age of film-making. With that, there needs to be the ability to recoup investment dollars, people need to make money.

Matthew Lillard

I've always been multi-cultural myself. I'm not black and I'm not white and I'm not pink and I'm not green. Eartha Kitt has no color, and that is how barriers are broken.

Eartha Kitt

I want barriers to be broken down for women.

Christen Press

We're standing on the shoulders of so many people who have already broken down so many barriers.

Indya Moore

People who face discrimination due to the color of their skin, are often obstructed by institutional barriers across our society - from education and housing, to employment and healthcare, to voting rights and the criminal justice system.

Wayne Messam

I think we do need better training programs, we do need a way to get people from careers that are dead-end into new careers.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin

Despite all the boosterish talk of globalization breaking down barriers, most writers in Anglo-America are still working within the nationalist assumptions of their traditionally powerful societies.

Pankaj Mishra

I believe that there are barriers, educational barriers, cultural barriers, societal barriers, that are keeping people from accessing the promise of a vibrant free enterprise economy.

Marco Rubio

Lebanon, of course, is a country with great problems. Traditionally, they have religious-national groups or ethnic-national groups. They have the Druses. Even the two Moslem sects, the Sunnis and the Shiites, are apart. Then they have the armed groups. Everybody's got a private army.

Menachem Begin

I think it's important to always have diversity, in our Congress or anywhere, but you also need diversity not just for women of color who are most underrepresented, but diversity in different walks of life.

Deb Haaland

When people think of diversity, they think people of color, but it also means women, who are severely underrepresented as directors, writers and producers.

Eva Longoria

People need to be ready to have truly "global" careers. Just as companies now face world-wide competition, so, too, do people. Therefore, individuals need to get out in the world more - some large percentage of Americans don't even have a passport - and work in different countries.

Jeffrey Pfeffer

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