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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

Institute for Women's Leadership

Rutgers University

New Brunswick, NJ
New York University

Women of Color Policy Network

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Women and Public Policy Program at the John F. Kennedy School of Government

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA
Women's eNews

New York, NY
Women's Research and Education Institute

Washington, DC

Resources

Women Matter

Since 2007, McKinsey’s Women Matter research has explored the role...
Name It. Change It.

Name It. Change It. is a non-partisan project of WCF Foundation, Women’s Media Center, and...
High Potentials in the Pipeline: Leaders Pay it Forward

Catalyst's longitudinal project, The Promise of Future Leadership: Highly Talented...
Small Business Lessons of the Recession

Many of today’s women-owned businesses (WOBs) are led by recession-tested entrepreneurs...
2012 Women’s Research—The Path Forward

An Accenture survey released as part of our 2012 celebration of International Women’s Day...

Blog Posts

Flexibility in the Corporate Sector: Still a Business Imperative?

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By Linda Basch, PhD*

Explorations on Women (Not) Running for Office – Part 3

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Rylee Sommers-FlanaganOver the last two weeks, Rylee explored what it means to be both an academic and everyday feminist and discussed her own...

Explorations on Women (Not) Running for Office – Part 2

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Rylee Sommers-Flanagan*Last week, Rylee intermixed everyday feminism with an academic feminist perspective to explore why we should care whether...

Explorations on Women (Not) Running for Office – Part 1

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Rylee Sommers-FlanaganLast fall, I decided to write a thesis about women running for state legislative office. This choice—to research women...

A Feminist Approach to UN Women

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Margot Baruch, an NCRW AMEX Fellow, recently posted a blog analyzing the newly established UN Women program. She writes that in order “for UN...

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

Record-breaking year for female candidates

July 23, 2012

Record numbers of women are running for seats in the House and Senate.
Marissa Mayer, Yahoo CEO's Pregnancy Reignites A Perennial Debate

July 18, 2012

Marissa Mayer, the new Yahoo CEO, is also pregnant, and the "can a woman have it all?" debate reignites.
Women police officers think about quitting - survey

July 16, 2012

Four out of 10 female police officers in the UK have considered leaving the force.
Changing skill sets mean more women in traditionally male fields

July 16, 2012

Women are increasingly entering previously male-dominated professions.
How Congressional Republicans and Democrats Pay Women

July 13, 2012

National Journal examines LegiStorm salary data for Congressional staffers, and finds that women earn significantly less across both houses and party lines.

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