Women's & Girls' Leadership

NCRW Resources

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

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:25am

Member Organizations

American University

Women & Politics Institute

,
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

,

Resources

Women on boards: one year on

Lord Davies has published the first annual progress report on his ground-breaking review...
Women in senior management: still not enough

The past 12 months have seen women take the lead in some of the toughest economic...
Return on Diversity: A Study of Diversity in the Boardroom 2012

Women are bringing a much needed source of emotional intelligence to the top table and as...
The Glass Wall

ESPN asks: Women continue to shatter stereotypes as athletes. So how come they can't catch a...
Panacea or Placebo: Are Women’s Networks Working for Women?

Blog Posts

Processing the AZ Shooting

Kyla Bender-Baird

As we process the tragic shooting in Arizona, read what members of the NCRW network are saying.In a Women's Media Center exclusive, "Giffords...

Follow the Council's Upcoming Summit LIVE!

Kyla Bender-Baird

Establishing (& maintaining) Effective Mentorships

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Tunisia L. Riley & Kyla Bender-Baird* This past Sunday, the Emerging Leaders Network of NCRW presented an enlightening workshop on...

Women and Leadership in America

jonathan

By Shyama Venkateswar, Ph.D.*I’m just back from a family vacation in India where I was struck by the healthy public debates and frequent news...

Generational Assignment

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Rylee Sommers-Flanagan*Someday, I want to be a politician or a policy wonk (this, in full nerdy self-disclosure). But when I look around, I dread...

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

Why Women Still Can’t Have It All

June 21, 2012

Anne-Marie Slaughter left her dream job, director of policy planning at the State Department, after realizing that she actually couldn't truly balance work and family.
Mainstreaming Gender Lens Investing

June 20, 2012

We have known for awhile that investing in women makes dollars and sense, now check out the numbers that prove it! We’ll be discussing it at our National Conference this week in DC!
Silenced Mich. lawmaker does 'Vagina Monologues'

June 19, 2012

Michigan Democratic state Rep. Lisa Brown, who was censured for saying "vagina" during anti-abortion leglislative debate, performed the Vagina Monologues on the Statehouse steps.
Fertile environment for women entrepreneurs in India: Study

June 19, 2012

The Dell Women's Global Entrepreneurship Study finds that India is one of the best places for women entrepreneurs.
First female submariners find few obstacles

June 18, 2012

The first female Navy submariners are reporting no problems as they report for duty.

GET INVOLVED

What We Do

NCRW is a network of leading university and community based research, policy, and advocacy centers with a growing global reach dedicated to advancing rights and opportunities for women and girls. We also have a Corporate Circle comprised of senior diversity professionals from leading U.S. and global member companies and a Presidents Circle of college and university leaders who share our commitment. NCRW harnesses the collective power of its network to provide knowledge, analysis, and thought leadership on issues ranging from reducing women’s poverty to building a critical mass of women’s leadership across sectors.

NCRW Blog

Women's & Girls' Leadership

NCRW Resources

Reports & Publications

Member Organizations

Resources

Blog Posts

Member Experts

News

Take Action

Search NCRW