Leadership in Civil Society

Benchmarking Women's Leadership

Submitted by kpeterson on Sat, 03/06/2010 - 10:55pm

While women may be participating in the workforce in equal—or in some cases, higher—numbers thantheir male peers, they rarely make it to the top. Across the leadership spectrum in the sectors studied here, women are stalled at 18 percent – with numbers much lower among women of color.

URL: 
http://www.thewhitehouseproject.org/documents/Report.pdf

From Turbulence to Transformation

Submitted by Kyla Bender-Baird on Thu, 03/04/2010 - 6:38pm

By Kyla Bender-Baird

Yesterday, more than 300 audience members flocked to lower Manhattan to join dynamic experts exploring public/private partnerships, capitalizing the women’s movement, and nothing less than changing the world. Jacki Zehner, founder of the Circle Financial Group and former Goldman Sachs partner, led the charge, asking how to take hold of this transformative moment and push for gender equality. Jacki Zehner truly believes that with “greater gender equality, this world would be a better place.”


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Women’s Suffrage, Political Responsiveness and Child Survival in American History

Submitted by kpeterson on Fri, 02/26/2010 - 2:15pm

Women’s choices appear to emphasize child welfare more than those of men. This paper presents new evidence on how suffrage rights for American women helped children to benefit from the scientific breakthroughs of the bacteriological revolution.

URL: 
http://www.stanford.edu/~ngmiller/suffrage.pdf

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United States
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Applied Women's Studies Program

Linda M. Perkins is Associate Professor of the Claremont Graduate University. She holds an interdisciplinary university appointment in the departments of Applied Women's Studies, Educational Studies and History. Perkins is a historian of women's and African American higher education. Her primary areas of research are on the history of African American women's higher education, the education of African Americans in elite institutions and the history of talent identification programs for African Americans students. She has served as Vice President of Division F (History and Historiography) of the American Educational Research Association (AERA) and has also served as a member of the Executive Council of AERA. She is currently on the editorial boards of the History of Education Quarterly and the Review of African American Education.

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Claremont, CA 91104
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34° 10' 0.8112" N, 118° 8' 10.3344" W
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The Gannon Center and EVOKE present Half the Sky with Sheryl WuDunn

Submitted by jmumbey on Thu, 02/11/2010 - 2:55pm
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Ann Ida Gannon Center for Women and Leadership
Date/Time: 
03/23/2010

The 2010 Ann F. Baum Women and Leadership Speaker Series

 

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