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.

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The Feminist Press CUNY

Gloria Jacobs is Executive Director of the Feminist Press, a non-profit publisher affiliated with the City University of New York. The Press has been publishing books by and for women around the globe for 36 years, and also publishes WSQ, the Women’s Studies Quarterly. A journalist, author and feminist activist, Ms. Jacobs was for many years the Executive Editor of Ms. magazine. She is the co-author, with Barbara Ehrenreich and Elizabeth Hess, of Re-making Love: The Feminization of Sex, which analyzed the convergence of the women’s movement and the sexual revolution. Her articles have appeared in many publications, including The New York Times, The New York Daily News, The Guardian (UK), Mother Jones, Working Mother, and New York Woman. Working as a consultant for the United Nations, she edited and wrote several major reports on the status of women around the world.

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New York, NY
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40° 42' 51.3684" N, 74° 0' 21.5028" W
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Julie Gilbert Means Business

Submitted by Kyla Bender-Baird on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 6:25pm

By Lauren Crain*

Last night the NCRW Emerging Leaders Network hosted Julie Gilbert, CEO and Founder of Wolf Means Business, at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Gilbert addressed an enthusiastic and engaged audience about the power of networking and team-building and harnessing the potential of women to create transformative change in the business community and beyond.


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Shattering the Ceilings, for Good

Submitted by afiorino on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 1:55pm

The barriers that continue to prevent women from reaching senior leadership in critical mass in the financial services industry and more generally–negative gender stereotyping, lack of women in line positions, a narrow pipeline, lack of mentoring and promoting opportunities, work/life balance challenges, limited access to powerful professional networks– are the same ones faced over a decade ago.
 

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacki-zehner/shattering-the-ceilings-f_b_219285.html

2008 Eurofirms Women in PwC Annual Report: Diversity in Action

Submitted by afiorino on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 4:33pm

Launched in 2003, the Eurofirms Women in the PwC Network brings together women and men in leading positions from 20 European countries. It supports the strategic goal of creating a working environment to help them attract and retain the best talent-male and female. This Annual Report looks at the progress made by the network in the past five years. It tells the stories of European countries and provides a flavor of activities and achievements in the area of diversity.
 

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http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/women-at-pwc/2008-eurofirms-women-in-pwc-annual-report.jhtml

Top Organizations Preparing Our Future Female Leaders

Submitted by jmumbey on Thu, 01/28/2010 - 5:28pm

The Glass Hammer, January 14th, 2010

   

Jacqueline B. Libster (New York City)

 

Creating workforce gender equality is a multifaceted project, including the work to help women at the top right now, as well as planting the seeds for success for future generations. That’s why many organizations are working to help girls and young women develop leadership skills that will carry them from the classroom to the boardroom, by:

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Legal Momentum

Leslye E. Orloff is vice president and director of Legal Momentum's Immigrant Women Program. She joined Legal Momentum's Washington, D.C. office in September 1999 to found and direct the Immigrant Women Program (IWP) which advocates for laws, policies and practices that enhance the legal rights of immigrant women and immigrant victims of violence against women. IWP focuses on improved access to immigration benefits, the justice system, public benefits, social services and health care.

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New York, NY
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Silvia Henriquez is responsible for the overall management, fundraising and administration of the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health. Silvia has positioned NLIRH as one of the leading organizations working to advance the reproductive health and rights of Latinas. Within the first two years of her tenure, she increased national visibility through the 2004 March for Women’s Lives and the National Latina Summit. Subsequently under her leadership, NLIRH has developed a successful organizing and leadership development training curriculum, a national policy agenda and built coalitions with state and national partners that advance a reproductive justice advocacy effort. Through her work at NLIRH, Silvia has published articles in “Social Policy, Organizing for Social and Economic Justice and Democratic Participation” and “Conscience, The Newsjournal of Catholic Opinion.”

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New York, NY 10004
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40° 42' 13.932" N, 74° 0' 49.8744" W
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