Rutgers University
Institute for Women's Leadership
 http://www.rci.rutgers.edu/~iwl


Contact Information:

Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
162 Ryders Lane
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Phone: 732-932-1463
Fax: 732-932-4739
E-mail: iwl@rci.rutgers.edu

CENTER DESCRIPTION

The Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL) is a consortium within Rutgers University. Consortium members include Douglass College, the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, Institute for Research on Women, Center for the American Women and Politics, Center for Women's Global Leadership, and the Center on Women and Work. The mission of the Institute is to examine and advance women's leadership in education, research, politics, the workplace, and the world. The focuses on the study of how and why women lead. It works to create new knowledge about women’s leadership and develops program to prepare women to lead effectively.

AREA(S) OF EXPERTISE


RECENT PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES

  • Leadership and Leadership Development
      • Scholars Program for Women's Leadership and Social Change.The IWL Leadership Scholars Program has an interdisciplinary focus and is designed to prepare undergraduate students to be informed and responsible leaders. Women's leadership is explored within such diverse areas as Congressional offices, scientific laboratories, community volunteer projects, classrooms, corporate board rooms, and more. The program involves a coordinated academic sequence that introduces students to effective models of leadership.

      Women in the Public Sphere. With the Institute for Research on Women, IWL held a conference on Power, Practice, and Agency in May of 1998 targeted at audiences inside and beyond the university.

      Talking Leadership. This project includes conversations with powerful women about how and why women lead, what barriers women face to obtaining leadership positions, and how these obstacles were addressed. Interviewees included Mildred Dresselhaus, bell hooks, Patricia Schroeder, and many more.




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