Women's & Girls' Leadership

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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...

Reports & Publications

Member Organizations

Catalyst

New York, NY
Wellesley Centers for Women

Wellesley College

Wellesley, MA
Women's eNews

New York, NY

Resources

Women in senior management: still not enough

The past 12 months have seen women take the lead in some of the toughest economic...
Return on Diversity: A Study of Diversity in the Boardroom 2012

Women are bringing a much needed source of emotional intelligence to the top table and as...
The Glass Wall

ESPN asks: Women continue to shatter stereotypes as athletes. So how come they can't catch a...
Panacea or Placebo: Are Women’s Networks Working for Women?
theFIT Report on Workplace Culture

Women work longer days and report working more often on vacation than their male...

Blog Posts

GIRLS FORUM: Kathy Cloninger--Developing Girls of Courage, Confidence, and Character

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February 11, 2009 posted by admin According to a recent report by the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the United States ranks 69th in the world in female...

TRANSITION FORUM – White House Project President Marie Wilson Calls for Presidential Commission on Women and Democracy

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November 7, 2008 Posted by Marie Wilson, President and Founder, The White House Project In headlines across the world, President-elect Obama's...

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

Women 'never the right age' in hedge fund

June 28, 2012

Researchers from the universities of Leicester and Essex looked into the concept of "adulting," which is defined as the attempt by people to be seen as mature and responsible, professionally and socially, and, when looking at a London hedge...
Will the World Listen to Women?

June 25, 2012

At the Rio+20 conference on sustainable development, female leaders argue that reproductive health links to everything from poverty to food security to climate change and beyond.
Saudi Arabia to allow women to compete for the first time

June 25, 2012

Saudi Arabia's embassy in London says Saudi women will be allowed to compete in the 2012 London Summer Olympics.
Women Facing Harsh New Pressures in North Korea

June 25, 2012

A new working paper by Stephan Haggard and Marcus Noland for the Peterson Institute for International Economics suggests that Kim Jong-un's early economic policy moves in the economic sphere “were focused on re-enforcing controls....
Paycheck Fairness and Market Failure

June 25, 2012

Nancy Folbre recaps the complexity of paycheck disparities.

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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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