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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

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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

The Rise of Women in the Creative Class

Women have become an increasingly important force in the U.S. labor market and especially in...
Overcoming the Gender Gap: Women Entrepreneurs as Economic Drivers

Women who are capable of starting growth companies...
New York Law School Law Review Law Review Diversity Report

In 2011, the New York Law School Law Review launched its Law Review Diversity...
The Global Gender Gap Report 2011

The Global Gender Gap Index, introduced by the World Economic Forum in 2006, is a framework...
Sponsoring Women to Success

While mentoring is essential for leadership development, it is insufficient for advancing to top...

Blog Posts

NEXT GENERATION FORUM--Safe to be Idealistic Again

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December 5, 2008 posted by adminKyla Bender-Baird: What are you wildest dreams for Michelle Obama’s four years in the White House?

NEXT GENERATION FORUM--Bringing Marginalized Women to the Forefront of Politics

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December 5, 2008 posted by adminKyla Bender-Baird: What are your wildest dreams for Michelle Obama's four years in the White House? (What alternate...

NEXT GENERATION FORUM--Turning from Fear to Hope in Politics and Leadership

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December 5, 2008 posted by adminKyla Bender-Baird: What are your thoughts, as a young woman leader, on women, leadership and politics?

NEXT GENERATION FORUM--Big Dreams for Michelle Obama

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December 5, 2008 posted by admin Michelle wakes up in the morning, takes a long satisfied stretch, and reaches for her blackberry resting on the...

The Next Generation of Women Leaders Speak Out

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Posted December 5, 2008 by Kyla Bender-Baird In this year’s historic election, young voters played a decisive role in determining our new...

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

Secret Service Needs More Women, Lawmakers Say

April 23, 2012

Two female lawmakers, Representative Carolyn B. Maloney, Democrat of New York, and Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine, said Sunday that the dearth of women Secret Service agents might have contributed to the scandal linking agency...
Cannes' Female Director Problem Highlighted By 2012 Selections

April 20, 2012

An Huffington Post analysis of the films competing at the 2012 Cannes festival finds that none of the 23 movies eligible for awards like the prestigious Palme D'Or were directed by women. And just two of the films chosen for the "Un Certain...
Black Women Leaders are Expected to be Assertive

April 20, 2012

A new study, published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, finds that black women are expected to act assertively in the workplace.
UTSA Study Finds a Scarcity of College Men Leads Women to Choose Briefcase over Baby

April 19, 2012

Research from Kristina Durante, assistant professor of marketing at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) College of Business, finds that the ratio of men to women dramatically alters women's choices about career and family. When men are...
How Geena Davis Hopes to Save Women’s Panel

April 16, 2012

Interview with actress Geena Davis, also Chair of the California Commission on Women, on Governor Jerry Brown's budget proposal to eliminate the commission.

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