In the last decade, financial businesses and organizations have put an emphasis on hiring more women and people from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds.
Historically, women’s path to STEM-related careers has been challenging, whether through unconscious bias, lack of early education and mentoring, or work-life balance hurdles.
By Mary A. Dempsey When Nina Bridgers decided to pursue her longstanding dream of a job in the tech field, she pinpointed University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC).
UMGC has embarked on a new phase of its education partnership with Amazon, which will include increasing the education benefit and expanding opportunities available to the company’s hourly employees.