Mentoring

Women are making strides in the workplace but the numbers are still stagnating across management and line positions. One of the keys to increased success is offering strong mentoring programs, but many women struggle to find influential supporters who can help navigate organizational power structures. Professional mentoring remains an important strategic tool for companies to attract and retain a diverse workforce and to move talent upward through the management structure. Women and men mentors and sponsors are essential for supporting women’s career advancement whether in corporations, academia, small businesses, philanthropy or the nonprofit sector.

Questioning Success at NCRW's Corporate Leadership Summit

Submitted by jmumbey on Wed, 05/05/2010 - 11:28am

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 roundtables and explorations of the challenges and opportunities for retaining and advancing women of color in the corporate sector.


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Building the Movement: An Exciting New Project at NCRW

Submitted by Kyla Bender-Baird on Mon, 04/26/2010 - 3:10pm

Help us spread the word to Emerging Leaders in Nonprofits:

NCRW is pleased to announce a new project focused on Building the Next Generation of Women Leaders in the Nonprofit Sector. Funded by the American Express Foundation, the program will encourage young women to enter the nonprofit arena, and provide training and sustained support to become leaders.


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Barriers to Women Working in the Federal Government

Submitted by kpeterson on Fri, 04/09/2010 - 2:23pm

Women in the federal workforce still are experiencing discrimination, as well as a lack of adequate mentoring and training opportunities to successfully move up through the ranks of the federal government. Women still account for only 29.95% of the Senior Executive Service (SES), a number that has only increased by less than a percentage point in each of the last three years. Yet they represent 44% of the federal workforce overall.

URL: 
http://www.few.org/docs/EEOC%20Diversity%20Task%20Force.pdf

The Recruitment, Retention & Advancement of Senior Technical Women

Submitted by kpeterson on Sat, 03/27/2010 - 5:46pm

On October 1, 2009, 59 senior technology executives participated in the Anita Borg Institute’s 2009 Technical Executive Forum.

Even though an acknowledgement was made that the pipeline of technical women with technical degrees coming out of academia was insufficient, the group commented that the women who do graduate from these programs are not joining organizational cultures that are as receptive as they could be to gender diversity. This cultural disconnect was highlighted through the discussion of five main components.

1. The existing technical culture is biased against “those who don’t code”

2. The existing technical culture rewards “Hero” behavior and an “in your face” communication style

3. Risk-aversion is embedded in recruiting and advancement practices

4. The individual contributor track lacks a development culture

URL: 
http://anitaborg.org/files/breaking-barriers-to-cultural-change-in-corps.pdf

The Corporate Gender Gap Report, 2010

Submitted by kpeterson on Tue, 03/09/2010 - 9:11pm

Leading companies are failing to capitalize on the talents of women in the workforce, according to the World Economic Forum’s Corporate Gender Gap Report 2010. It is the first study to cover the world’s largest employers in 20 countries and benchmark them against the gender equality policies that most companies should have in place but are in fact widely missing.

URL: 
http://www.weforum.org/en/Communities/Women%20Leaders%20and%20Gender%20Parity/GenderGapNetwork/CorporateGenderGap/index.htm

Paths to Power: Advancing Women in Government

Submitted by kpeterson on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 1:30pm

When it comes to women’s advancement, few achievements can compare with the rising role of women in government. The move to achieving full gender parity may be slow and uneven, but women are increasingly being elected and appointed to positions of power.

URL: 
http://www.deloitte.com/assets/Dcom-Global/Local%20Assets/Documents/Public%20Sector/dtt_ps_pathstopower_010310.pdf

Women of Color Leadership Summit

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04/27/2010 - 04/28/2010

 

THE CHALLENGE AND THE CHARGE:

Strategies for Retaining and Advancing Women of Color
Corporate Leadership Summit


One Time Warner Center, New York City
(Entrance on 58th Street between 8th and 9th Avenues)

 

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Higher Education Resource Services (HERS)

Judith S. White is the executive director of Higher Education Resource Services (HERS), an educational non-profit that provides leadership and management training for women in higher education administration. The main offices of HERS are located on the campus of the University of Denver. Previously Dr. White was assistant vice president for campus services and adjunct professor of women’s studies at Duke University. She has taught and held administrative positions at Dartmouth College, UNC-Greensboro, UNC-Charlotte, and Queens College. Dr. White was a Senior Fellow of the Association of American Colleges and Universities from 2003-05, serving as an advisor to AAC&U’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Global Initiatives and the Project on the Status and Education of Women and as chair of the advisory board of Campus Women Lead. Judith attended Salem College before finishing her B.A. at Princeton University. She received her M.A.

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Denver, CO
United States
39° 44' 20.9544" N, 104° 59' 4.9308" W
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