Equality, Diversity & Inclusion

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Reports & Publications

THE GIRLS REPORT: What We Know & Need to Know About Growing Up Female
Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:29am
Gains and Gaps: A Look at the World's Women
Friday, April 10, 2009 - 11:46pm

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Blog Posts

WOMEN’S EQUALITY FORUM: Never having to hear “she’s doing a good job…for a woman” again
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By Aviva Dove-Viebahn* 
WOMEN’S EQUALITY FORUM: Daddy, can a man be Prime Minister?
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By Gwendolyn Beetham*When I was in graduate school in London, one of my professors told a cute story about his daughter, born during the Thatcher era...
WOMEN’S EQUALITY FORUM: Steps to Political Equality from Gloria Thomas
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By Gloria Thomas*Women will not have achieved political equality until critical societal changes have taken place. First, women’s successes in...
New Strategies for Leadership
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May 11, 2009 posted by admin One of the many dynamic panels to be featured at our upcoming annual conference , Igniting Change: Activating Alliances...
ADVOCACY CORNER: White House Council on Women and Girls
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March 11, 2009 posted by admin This just in: by executive order President Obama has created a White House Council on Women and Girls.  As NOW...

Member Experts

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Judith White
Judith S. White is the executive director of Higher Education Resource Services (HERS), an educational non-profit that provides leadership and...
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Linda Perkins
Linda M. Perkins is Associate Professor of the Claremont Graduate University. She holds an interdisciplinary university appointment in the...
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Gloria Jacobs
Gloria Jacobs is Executive Director of the Feminist Press, a non-profit publisher affiliated with the City University of New York. The Press has been...
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Caryn McTighe Musil
Caryn McTighe Musil is the Senior Vice President at the Association of American Colleges and Universities and oversees the Office of Diversity,...
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Lesley E. Orloff
Leslye E. Orloff is vice president and director of Legal Momentum's Immigrant Women Program. She joined Legal Momentum's Washington, D.C. office in...
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Silvia Henriquez
Silvia Henriquez is responsible for the overall management, fundraising and administration of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health....

News

  • Bold reversal on Saudi lashing may signal new era for women’s rights
    September 29, 2011

    Shaima Jastaina had been sentenced Tuesday to 10 lashes for driving a car in Jeddah. The court ruling came just two days after King Abdullah had announced that Saudi women would, for the first time, be able to stand for office and nominate members of...
  • Is Banking Fair to Women?
    September 27, 2011

    E.J. Graff, resident scholar at the Brandeis Women’s Studies Research Center in Massachusetts, discusses the continuing inequities faced by women who want leadership positions in the banking industry.
  • Female entrepreneurs represent the power of an untapped market
    September 18, 2011

    The article includes interviews with Julie Castro Abrams, the CEO of Women’s Initiative for Self Employment, a San Francisco nonprofit that provides high-potential, low-income women with the training, support and funding to start their own...
  • U.S. Women Warriors Sent to Battle With Armor, Equipment Designed for Men
    September 5, 2011
    About 271,000 women have served in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars over the past decade, making up almost 12 percent of the force, the Defense Department estimated. As a growing number are exposed to combat, women warriors pose new challenges for a...
  • Study: Minority women: Racism harder than sexism
    July 19, 2011

    Researchers at the University of Toronto suggest that racism may affect some female minority groups more deeply than sexism. In the study, participants of...