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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: 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...
Building a Pipeline to Women's Leadership

NCRW held an expert panel on February 28, 2011 at American Express with senior leaders from...

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Catalyst

New York, NY
Wellesley Centers for Women

Wellesley College

Wellesley, MA
Women's eNews

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2012 Women’s Research—The Path Forward

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

Blog Posts

A Brief History of the Women's Donor Activist Movement

jzeilinger@ncrw.org

This video was inspired by historian Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner who brilliantly determined to preserve and document the writings of suffragist Matilda...

Gender Fatigue in MBA Programs

jzeilinger@ncrw.org

*By Julie Zeilinger Despite widespread satisfaction over the fact that women now constitute close to 50% of students in medical and law schools...

Ask A Working Woman Survey 2010: Working America and AFL-CIO

jzeilinger@ncrw.org

Working America and the AFL-CIO recently launched the 2010 Ask a Working Woman survey. A similar survey has been done every 2 years, and in...

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...

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...

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...

Judy Robinson Rogers

Judy Robinson Rogers, Ph.D., became the eleventh president of Cottey College in 2004. Previously, she served as vice president for leadership and...

Lorna Edmundson

Lorna Duphiney Edmundson, Ed.D., President Emerita of Wilson College, is recognized as an effective leader, fundraiser, and facilitator of...

Deborah Hopkins

Deborah Hopkins is Chairman of Venture Capital Initiatives and Chief Innovation Officer at Citi. Recognized for her leadership in driving client-...

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...

Sari Kerr

Sari Pekkala Kerr is an economist and a senior research scientist at the Wellesley Centers for Women at Wellesley College. She joined the WCW in 2010...

Ruth Mandel

Ruth B. Mandel is Board of Governors Professor of Politics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Since 1995, she has been Director of the...

News

Olympians complain of gender discrimination

July 23, 2012

Japanese and Australian Olympic sports governing bodies are under fire after complaints that male athletes flew business class to the London Games, while the women sat in economy seats.
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.
Saudi Arabia Not Sending Female Athletes To London Olympics: REPORT

July 11, 2012

Saudi Arabia says that no Saudi women have qualified for the Olympics, as no female athlete has taken part in the country's qualifying events. Saudi Arabia severely restricts women in public life.

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