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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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Resources

Women-Owned Firms in the United States

Every five years, the U.S. Census completes an extensive Survey of Business Owners (SBO)...
Intellectual Property and Women Entrepreneurs

The number of women awarded patents has soared over the last several decades far beyond...
Women, Business, and the Law

Women, Business and the Law is a World Bank report that presents indicators...
Women and Graduate Management Education

Data from the Graduate Management Admissions Council indicates that more women are working...
Gender Equality and Female Empowerment

Dr. Rajiv Shah, Administrator for the United States Agency for International Development (...

Blog Posts

Questioning Success at NCRW's Corporate Leadership Summit

jmumbey

By Jacqueline Mumbey*Last week, NCRW held a two-day corporate leadership summit (April 27-28) at Time Warner. It was an inspiring series of...

A vote for CEDAW is a vote for Women

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Kelsey Schwarz*Like many other Americans, I was unfamiliar with the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (...

CEDAW: Time to Get the US on Board

Kyla Bender-Baird

Today at 12noon Demos is presenting a panel discussing why U.S. ratification of the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination...

Happy Birthday, Mariam!

Kyla Bender-Baird

The founding president of the National Council for Research on Women, Mariam Chamberlain, just turned 92. Gwendolyn Beetham, a former NCRW staff...

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens Announces Retirement

Kyla Bender-Baird

Justice Stevens, who was appointed by a Republican president under the assumption that he would vote along conservative lines turned out to be a...

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

How women are changing the tech world

June 7, 2012

USA Today profiles a new generation of female tech start-up founders.
The Women and People of Color Who Invented the Internet

June 7, 2012

Ms. examines the whitewashing that accompanies NYT's David Streitfeld's declaration that men invented the internet.
NYT-“MEN invented the internet”

June 5, 2012

Xeni Jardin critique's The New York Times' piece on the Ellen Pao/Kleiner Perkins sexual harassment lawsuit, and gender discrimination in Silicon Valley.
The Byline Survey 2011

May 30, 2012

The OpEd Project conducts an annual Byline Survey to get a sense of who is getting heard in public discourse.
Bridging the CEO Pay Gap

May 29, 2012

The 20 top-paid CEOs have more than their multimillion-dollar pay packages in common, notes The Wall Street Journal: They’re all men.

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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.

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