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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

Effective_Philanthropy

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

Study Reveals a Lack of Women in Federal and State-Level Judgeships

In the U.S., women make up 48% of law school graduates and 45% of law firm associates, but only...
Sex Matters: Gender Differences in a Professional Setting

This paper shows that gender diferences exist in a professional setting where managers have a...
High Performance Entrepreneurs: Women in High Tech (Whitepaper)

New research shows what many have long suspected: women entrepreneurs are poised to lead...
Women in IT: The Facts (2009)

The technology industry is one of the fastest-growing industries in the U.S. The United...
Senior Technical Women: A Profile of Success

A growing body of research has documented the underrepresentation of women in technical...

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

Quotas Possible To Get More Women On Boards

March 6, 2012

The European Commission has moved one step closer to imposing quotas on companies to increase the number of women in boardrooms.
Women and Education: Making Inequity Visible

March 6, 2012

Kathy Krendl, President of Otterbein University, argues that today's woman is not only faced with many barriers -- fewer educational opportunities, lower wage prospects, higher unemployment numbers -- but is also faced with a tangible lack of...
How NPR Became a Hotbed for Female Journalists

March 5, 2012

You’re familiar with the stereotype: humorless, ever so slightly imperious, Birkenstock-wearing brown-rice enthusiasts. These are the women of ...
Women react to Rush's apology: Not accepted?

March 5, 2012

The outcry over Rush Limbaugh calling birth control activist Sandra Fluke a “slut” and a “prostitute,” seems to have worked. Several days after his attempt to slut-shame the Georgetown University law student, Limbaugh...
More women seeking MBAs, but pay gap persists

March 5, 2012

The number of women looking to attend business school hit a record high last year, but that doesn’t mean they’ll find an equitable workplace when they get out.

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