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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

Unlocking the full potential of women at work

Since 2007, McKinsey has been researching intensively the advancement of women in the workplace...
It's a Man's (Celluloid) World: On-screen Representations of Female Characters in the Top 100 Films of 2011 (Executive Summary)

In 2011, females remained dramatically under-represented as characters in film when...
Women and Men in Canadian Capital Markets: An Action Plan for Gender Diversity

Despite more than a decade of concerted advocacy and good intentions by the industry, women...
Is Board Diversity Important for Firm Performance and Board Independence?: An exploratory study of Singapore Listed Company

Following the 1997 Asian financial crisis and the spate of corporate frauds and accounting...
Women Senior Management Appointments: CEW & Dun & Bradstreet Data: May 2012

A survey of Australian CEOs from Dun and Bradstreet and Chief Executive Women (CEW).
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Blog Posts

Investing with a Gender Lens: How We Can Use Our Dollars to Drive Positive Change

Kyla Bender-Baird

We at the National Council for Research on Women were excited to participate in the Women Funding Network’s webinar “Investing with a...

Is Obama Changing the Way Washington Works for Women?

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By Libby Parker*On April 6th, 2011, the Center for American Progress and American University’s Center for Congressional and Presidential...

Saying "No" to All-Male Corporate Boards

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Later this afternoon, NCRW President Linda Basch will giving remarks at the Women's Funding Network conference, The Power of Global Networks, on the...

Looking to Women in America for Solutions

Kate Meyer

*By Kate MeyerLast week Valerie Jarrett, Senior Advisor to President Obama and Chair of the White House Council on Women and Girls, and Preeta Bansal...

Geraldine Ferraro: Toughness and Fearlessness Rooted in Hardship

Kyla Bender-Baird

By Vivienne Heston-DemirelThe career of Geraldine Ferraro was remarkable, not only because of her nomination as Democratic vice presidential...

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

Ladies first: Why 2012 is the Women's Games

July 11, 2012

London 2012 will be the first Olympics to which every nation sends a female competitor and in which women are not barred from any sport.
After Palin fiasco, will Romney risk a woman VP?

July 9, 2012

Will Mitt Romney choose a woman as his Vice Presidential running mate?
Shut Up, Sheryl Sandberg: Millennial Women Reject Role Models, Mentors

July 5, 2012

Millennials don't want to follow in older women's footsteps.
Gender still a barrier to success, say hedge fund women

July 5, 2012

Women in hedge funds still feel as though their male colleagues view them as women first, professionals second.
Israel Existential Crisis Creates Haredi Breadwomen as Men Study

June 28, 2012

Ultra-orthodox, or haredi, women are joining the Israeli labor force in increasing numbers and many are choosing to work in technology, attracted in part by the industry’s willingness to accommodate their religious lifestyle.

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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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