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AGENDA Annual Conference 2012 external rev March 30

AGENDA: NCRW Annual Conference 2012 - Agenda-Setting Nationally and Globally: Leveraging Women's...
30 Leaders Who Are Changing the Way the World Looks at Women

On our 30th Anniversary we are recognizing 30 stellar women from diverse corners of our broad...
ACTION BRIEF: The Gender Equality Project
ACTION BRIEF: WOMEN AND MONEY
The Female Vision: Women's Real Power at Work

At an NCRW expert panel on September 29, 2010 at American Express, authors Sally Helgesen and Julie...

Reports & Publications

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

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:19am

MISSING Information About Women's Lives

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Member Organizations

American University

Women & Politics Institute

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Center for American Women & Politics

Rutgers University

New Brunswick, NJ
Center for Ethics in Action

University of New England

Portland, ME
Center for Women in Government & Civil Society

University at Albany, SUNY

Albany, NY
Center for Women in Politics & Public Policy

University of Massachusetts Boston

Boston, MA
Institute for Women & Work

Cornell University

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Resources

Our American Immigrant Entrepreneurs: The Women

When Americans picture an immigrant entrepreneur, they likely imagine a man who began the...
2011 UC Davis Study of California Women Business Leaders: A Census of Women Directors and Highest-Paid Executives

California’s Glass Ceiling May Take a Century to Crack.
The UC Davis Graduate School...
The Progress and Pitfalls of Diversity on Wall Street

More minorities and women are working on Wall Street, but white men remain very dominant when it...
The Path to 270: Demographics Versus Economics in the 2012 Presidential Election

Report by the Center for American Progress examines how changing demographics and the perceived...
From Gen Y Women to Employers: What They Want in the Workplace and Why it Matters for Business

The report explores Generation Y women’s career choices and the opportunities and...

Blog Posts

Change was promised, Change has come

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May 27, 2009 posted by Linda Basch After nearly a month of anticipation, President Obama has finally announced his nomination for Supreme Court...

Getting Women into the Political Arena

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May 15, 2009 posted by admin This past year has been a whirlwind for women and politics! The campaigns of Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin...

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...

GIRLS FORUM: Kathy Cloninger--Developing Girls of Courage, Confidence, and Character

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February 11, 2009 posted by admin According to a recent report by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the United States ranks 69th in the world in female...

GIRLS FORUM: Young Obama Campaign Worker Wants Equal Opportunities to Pursue Her Dreams

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Februrary 5, 2009 posted by admin Dear President Obama, I was one of the “super volunteers” for the Duluth, MN area throughout your...

Member Experts

Deborah Frett

Deborah L. Frett joined the Business and Professional Women's Foundation (BPW) as CEO in May 2005 after more than 30 years of providing strategic...

Deborah Hopkins

Deborah Hopkins is Chairman of Venture Capital Initiatives and Chief Innovation Officer at Citi. Recognized for her leadership in driving client-...

Deborah A. Freund

Professor Deborah A. Freund is the 15th President of Claremont Graduate University (CGU) and is an internationally known health economist and...

Anne Erni

Anne Erni is an innovative leader who is Global Head of Leadership, Learning and Diversity at Bloomberg where she manages global initiatives and...

Tiffany Dufu

Ever since she accepted the Girl of the Year Award in eighth grade, Tiffany Dufu knew that she wanted to make a profound impact. Raised in the...

Penny Abeywardena

Penny leads the Clinton Global Initiative’s Girls and Women program and is Associate Director, Commitments. She is responsible for the...

Leslie Wolfe

Dr. Leslie R. Wolfe is President of the Center for Women Policy Studies, the Nation’s first feminist policy institute, founded in 1972. The...

Radhika Balakrishnan

Radhika Balakrishnan, Executive Director of the Center for Women's Global Leadership, and Professor, Women's and Gender Studies, has a Ph.D. in...

Pamela Shifman

Since May 2008, Pamela Shifman has served as the Director of Initiatives for Women and Girls at the NoVo Foundation, where she directs its work on...

News

Women At Work: Jealousy And Envy Impact Women Differently Than Men

May 7, 2012

The Huffington Post reports on a study, published in the journal Revista de Psicologia Social, that examined the way that feelings of jealousy (defined as "a threat or loss of success in a relationship due to interference from a rival") and...
Why 2012 Could Be a Year of the Woman -- and Why It's Important that Women Run

May 4, 2012

This year, 25 women are running for Senate seats and 225 are running for the House,
IPOs Are Still A Man’s Game, Study Of MBA Students Says

May 4, 2012

The Wall Street Journal reports on an experiment conducted recently at the University of Utah’s David Eccles School of Business that reveals that "those firms led by women…were expected to have less share-price...
More Women Are Primed to Land CEO Roles

May 2, 2012

The Wall Street Journal reports that the pipeline of female managers and executives are positioned to be the next generation of chief executives.
Groups pushing to elect more women from South

April 30, 2012

Highlights the work of She Should Run, the 2012 Project, and other groups pushing for more female candidates for political office, especially in the South.

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