Neil Degrasse Tyson on being a Minority pursuing a Career in a STEM Field

Did you know?“Investors preferred entrepreneurial ventures pitched by a man than an identical pitch from a woman by a rate of 68% to 32% Male-narrated pitches were rated as more persuasive, logical and fact-based than were the same pitches narrated by a female voice”

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Out of 71,000 professional pilots in the U.S. Only 674 are black. (14 black females)

Did you know?In 1979 Atlanta Mayor Maynard Jackson won a case in Supreme Court that ruled that diversity in contracts were necessary. Previous to that ruling minority's only received roughly one percent in municipal contracts.

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Women are majority owners of about ten million businesses, about 36% of all U.S. businesses, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration.

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That Panelist Carol Bell was the first team member of the first African-American cheerleading squad to ever appear in the World Book of Encyclopedia, cir.1982

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Panelist Shannetta Griffin was the first African-American Female to Graduate from Toledo’s School of Civil Engineering

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The statement above was recently published in history textbooks by McGraw-Hill in Texas!

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First African American pilot to receive an international pilots license was Bessie Coleman.

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Of 321 large global enterprises—companies with at least $500 million in annual revenue—surveyed in a Forbes study in 2011, 85 percent agreed or strongly agreed that diversity is crucial to fostering innovation in the workplace.

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Did you know that over 300 languages are spoken in the U.S.?

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Panelist Meenakshi Nieto was the first Indian-American Women to receive her accreditation

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

John F. Kennedy

Did you know?Christina “THUMPER’ Hopper – A current U.S. Air Force Fighter pilot was the first black female fighter pilot

Did you know?Women pilots only represent 6 percent of all pilots

Did you know?Today, 4.1 percent of airline transport pilots (ATPs) are women, 2.7 percent are black or African-American, 2.5 percent are Asian and 5 percent are Hispanic or Latino.

Did you know?Between ORD and ATL alone approximately 180 million people are impacted by those airports sustainability programs.

Did you know?In the USA, women account for 12.02% of pilot students

Diversity: the art of thinking independently together.

Malcolm Forbes