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An Unforgettable Celebration with Stellar Women Leaders
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By Natasha Cline-Thomas*
Stellar Honorees -- NCRW Celebrates 30th Anniversary March 6th
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At a stellar gathering of leaders from business, philanthropy, government, and non-profits, the National Council for Research on Women will kick off...
Having It All But Remaining True to Oneself
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By Linda Basch, PhD* This morning, I had the opportunity to hear Véronique Morali, President of the Global Women’s Forum at...
Looking to Women in America for Solutions
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*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...
Building a Pipeline to Women’s Leadership
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Female students have long surpassed their male peers in the rates at which they seek higher education. Yet across sectors, women’s...

Member Experts

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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...
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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...
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Lorna Edmundson
Lorna Duphiney Edmundson, Ed.D., President Emerita of Wilson College, is recognized as an effective leader, fundraiser, and facilitator of...
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Deborah Hopkins
Deborah Hopkins is Chairman of Venture Capital Initiatives and Chief Innovation Officer at Citi. Recognized for her leadership in driving client-...
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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...
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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...
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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

  • UN Secretary-General Appoints All-Male Climate Change Panel
    March 18, 2010

    U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's decision to appoint a 19-member, all-male high-level advisory group on Climate Change Financing (CCF) has triggered strong protests from women's groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs...
  • At 76, Steinem laments elusive equality for women
    March 17, 2010

    A message to all those confident young American women from pioneering feminist Gloria Steinem: For all the advances in women's rights in the past 40 years, equality remains a distant hope....
  • Sierra Leone court backs woman chief bid
    March 16, 2010

    A judge in Sierra Leone has ruled for the first time that a woman's bid to become a paramount chief is lawful.  Women's rights activists hailed the ruling as a landmark decision and vowed to fight similar bans in other regions.
  • Egypt Supreme Court Backs Women Judges
    March 16, 2010

    Egypt's Constitutional Court backed the right of women judges to sit on the bench in the state's administrative courts, despite opposition from conservatives.

    The ruling follows a dispute within the State Council, the top administrative...
  • TV industry a hostile place for working mothers, survey finds
    March 15, 2010

    The television industry sector remains riddled with sexist attitudes and is uncongenial to working mothers, a survey published today suggests.

    Fifty-five per cent of the 179 TV workers interviewed for the survey said it is difficult to get back...