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Creative Future Writers' Award
Creative Future is a British charitable organisation that supports artists and writers from Underrepresented groups in the community. It is chiefly known for its annual Creative Future Writers' Awards (CFWA). History Creative Future was founded in 2007. Description The organisation is a British charitable organisation based in Brighton, West Sussex. It aims to counter inequality by providing support to people whose access to the arts is hindered by poor mental health, disability, socioeconomic background, gender identity, as members of racial minorities that experience inequity, and others who have been historically underrepresented in the arts. Creative Future Writers' Award The Creative Future Writers' Awards (CFWA), established in 2013, is a programme to celebrate and help to develop the talents of unpublished and underrepresented writers. The programme is not only the only free-to-enter national writing competition for all eligible writers writers in the UK, but also inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Underrepresented Group
An underrepresented group describes a subset of a population that holds a smaller percentage within a significant subgroup than the subset holds in the general population. Specific characteristics of an underrepresented group vary depending on the subgroup being considered. Underrepresented groups in STEM United States Underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in the United States include women 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. Other underrepresented groups in science and engineering included African Americans, Native Americans, Alaskan Natives, and Hispanics, who collectively formed 26% of the population, but accounted for only 10% of the science and engineering workers. This 2015 study found that women make up just 26% of the computing workforce and 12% of the engineering workforce; African American, Hispanic, and Native ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |