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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

Monday, July 13, 2009 - 11:25am

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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The Cranfield FTSE Female Index

Since 1999, the annual Female FTSE benchmarking report has provided a regular measure of...
Government That Looks Like America? Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Financial Regulatory Institutions

Diversity in executive management is low at all agencies when compared to the percentage...
World Development Report 2012: Gender Equality and Development

The 2012 World Development Report on Gender Equality and Development...
Thinking big: how to accelerate the growth of women-owned companies

The Ernst & Young study, based on Babson College Center for Women’s Leadership...
The Diversity Scorecard: Measuring Board Composition in Asia Pacific

In Asia, as in the rest of the world, board composition concerns have shifted from independence...

Blog Posts

CEDAW Forum: Time to Make History With CEDAW

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Don Kraus*The bumper sticker on my wife’s car reads, “Well-behaved women seldom make history!” I believe proponents of CEDAW,...

Can You Hear (or Read) Me Now?

Kyla Bender-Baird

Originally posted by Rylee Sommers-Flagan June 24, 2010 on EmoryWheel,com (Emory University's student newspaper)I’ve long been suspicious that...

Girls Inc Scholars Take It to the White House

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Kyla Bender-BairdI have to admit, when I was a kid, I was convinced that I would be the first woman President of the United States. ...

Charlotte Bunch Tribute to Rhonda Copelon

Kyla Bender-Baird

In today's WMC Exclusive, "An Architect of Feminist Human Rights Law," human rights leader and feminist foremother Charlotte Bunch offers a...

Reconstructing Haiti with Women & Girls at the Center

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Tunisia L. Riley*On May 4, 2010 I sat in a packed room of women (and a few men) coming together to raise awareness of women and girls efforts in...

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 in Finance: Focus on board diversity is the tip of the iceberg

June 12, 2012

The findings of the fifth annual Financial News Women in Finance survey are sobering: Of the 650 female respondents to the survey, all of whom work in the financial services industry, two thirds said their gender made it harder for them to succeed and...
The Catalyst Pyramid: U.S. Women in Business

June 8, 2012

Infographic showing percentage of women in the workforce vs. different management positions.
Top 100 Women Financial Advisors 2012

June 7, 2012

Barron's list of the top female financial advisors in 2012.
Women Kill the Buzz for Guys Who Hire, Fire Them

June 7, 2012

Susan Antila looks at several decades of sexual harassment in the financial industry.
The Depressing Gender Gap at the Nation’s Top 71 Venture Capital Firms [SLIDESHOW]

June 7, 2012

Betabeat calculates the FEM, or Female Equality Metric, for the nation's largest venture capital firms.

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