What's A Girl Gotta Do to Break The Glass Ceiling?
Editorial:
From Forbes:
We all know that women and girls are not showing up on a leadership trajectory, a position that would otherwise seem consistent with their increased rates of higher education, business ownership, workforce participation and other factors.
It’s not like folks aren’t trying.
When she’s not doing push ups with Ellen DeGeneres, one of First Lady Michelle Obama’s top priorities is mentoring girls so ‘there isn’t any room you can’t walk into.’
The Girl Scouts of America have just launched a major public awareness campaign to highlight the urgent need to help girls become leaders,www.togetherthere.org.
Nike has a global effort, www.girleffect.org, with a similar message. Here’s the data the Girls Scouts point to.
Back in 1993, I created a high-profile initiative called Take Our Daughters To Work that bears many similarities to the new campaign from the Girl Scouts and Nike’s campaign. Carol Gilligan’s seminal book, ‘In A Different Voice,’ provided the research orientation and Take Our Daughters To Work succeeded in mobilizing more than 70 million people on behalf of girls.
Yet, the research, the campaigns, and the web sites just keep on coming.
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Source:
Forbes
URL:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/nellmerlino/2012/02/07/whats-a-girl-gotta-do/
Date:
February 8, 2012
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