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Leadership in Higher Education: A Path to Greater Racial and Gender Diversity final report

In 2003, with support from the Ford Foundation, the National Council for Research on Women...

Reports & Publications

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Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:30am

Taxes ARE a Woman's Issue: Reframing the Debate

Friday, April 10, 2009 - 11:43pm

Women in Fund Management: A Road Map for Achieving Critical Mass — and Why it Matters

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:19am

Gains and Gaps: A Look at the World's Women

Friday, April 10, 2009 - 11:46pm

MISSING Information About Women's Lives

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:25am

Member Organizations

Abigail Quigley McCarthy Center for Women

St. Catherine University

St. Paul, MN
Center for Gender in Organizations

Simmons School of Management

Boston, MA
Center for the Education of Women

University of Michigan

Ann Arbor, MI
Ms. Foundation for Women

Brooklyn, NY
Women's Environment and Development Organization

New York, NY

Resources

Critical Mass: Does the Number of Women on a Corporate Board Make a Difference?

A study on women corporate board members that demonstrate the importance of numbers in how women...
Top Women Tip the Scales

Evidence of a link between the bottom line and women at the top is growing, with McKinsey...
Women Matter: Gender Diversity, a Corporate Performance Driver

A study that shows with a higher proportion of women in top management, a company may perform...
The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools and Societies

The Difference reveals that progress and innovation may depend less on lone thinkers with...
2007 Michigan Women’s Leadership Index

The Michigan Women’s Leadership Index (WLI) is a data-based instrument used to measure the...

Blog Posts

Going beyond Women’s Ambition: Diversifying Corporate Leadership from All Angles

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*By Áine Duggan*In his recent LinkedIn post, PricewaterhouseCooper’s (PwC) Bob Moritz, Chairman and Senior Partner, shares steps...

Looking to Women in America for Solutions

Kate Meyer

*By Kate MeyerLast week Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, and Preeta Bansal...

Origin of "Women of Color"

Kyla Bender-Baird

In case you never learned or in case you need a refresher, Western States Center offers this video of Loretta Ross, cofounder and national...

Missing Voices at the Table: Women with Disabilities

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Lisa McClain*In July 2010, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act. I’d like to encourage activists,...

Gender Fatigue in MBA Programs

jzeilinger@ncrw.org

*By Julie Zeilinger Despite widespread satisfaction over the fact that women now constitute close to 50% of students in medical and law schools...

Member Experts

Jessica Gonzalez-Rojas

Jessica González-Rojas is the Executive Director of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, the only national reproductive justice...

Juhu Thukral

Juhu Thukral is the Director of Law and Advocacy at The Opportunity Agenda. She has been an advocate for the rights of low-income and immigrant women...

Kyla Bender-Baird

Kyla Bender-Baird, Research and Programs Manager, is providing the Council with a wide range of research and communications support. She received a...

Lisa McClain

Dr. Lisa McClain is an Associate Professor of History and the Director of Gender Studies at Boise State University. She researches the issue of...

News

US Career Women Thrive but Working Mothers Struggle

November 8, 2011

The United States doubles as one of the best places in the world for career women looking to excel in male-dominated jobs, but one of the more difficult industrialized countries for working mothers.
Girl Power: List of Companies With Female CEOs

November 4, 2011

Article compares the performance of the current fortune 500 companies with women CEOs to the S&P500 performance and their industry competitors from the start of the calendar year to present. Correlation and causation aside, the trend holds true...
Would more women on boards lead to less excessive salaries?

November 4, 2011

In Britain, the Conservative prime minister David Cameron proposed that more women be placed on governing boards of financial firms as a way to reduce high salaries and bonuses.
Faculty diversity means gains for female law students, according to study

November 3, 2011

Law schools with a high percentage of full-time women and minority faculty members on average had a larger percentage of female students on their flagship law reviews during the last academic year, according to New York Law School Law Review's 2010-11...
Fewer Nations Made Progress to Close Gender Gap: Study

November 2, 2011

Fewer countries made strides toward improving equality between men and women in 2011, while Nordic countries held the top spots, according to a ranking of 135 nations by the World Economic Forum.

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