Category: Gender Equity
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Closing the Leadership Gap
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The Institute for Women’s Leadership exists to address the leadership gap and to take progressive steps to narrow the breach. Leadership by the Numbers Center for American Progress Women have outnumbered men on college campuses since 1988. They have earned at least one-third of law degrees since 1980 and accounted for one-third of medical school students…
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Lessons from Female Leaders
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There is a growing call for a more equal future with better representation of women as leaders. We rally around the need to eliminate or reduce obstacles in the way of women on their paths to leadership. Yet, in a recent article in Harvard Business Review and a compelling Ted Talk, psychologist and author Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic accounts for…
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The Multiplier Effect
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Women in Leadership In our last blog post we reviewed where women stand in the quest for gender equity based on a Declaration and Platform for Action developed by the UN in 1995. Although the global community has a long way to go, there are bright spots, where innovative women “solutionaries” are pivoting not only to cope…
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Women’s Leadership – Where Do We Stand?
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September 2020 marked the 25th Anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women: Action for Equality, Development and Peace. There, 189 countries committed to equal rights and opportunities for all women and girls. In 1995, UN Women created a “Declaration and Platform for Action,” recognizing that the odds were systematically stacked against women and organized…
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Revisiting Gender Equity
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A Women’s Leadership Movement? Recent media stories about how strong female leaders are succeeding through the pandemic crisis have created a movement of reevaluating what a strong leader looks like and of taking a long, hard look at gender equity. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand has been praised for her leadership style during…
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Dismantling Bias
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CAREER & BUSINESS The first hurdle we face as a society in dismantling bias is our own natures. Bias is baked into our brains. We literally can’t function if we don’t categorize the information we’re constantly exposed to: familiar, strange, interesting, boring. It is necessary for us to make inferences and assumptions. Otherwise, we’d be…