Take a moment to explore these resources designed to help women in leadership get engaged and involved in the charge for feminism and gender equality.
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Barriers & Bias: The Status of Women in Leadership
There is no shortage of qualified women to fill leadership roles: Women make up almost half of the U.S. labor force. They outnumber men in earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees and are nearly on par in getting medical and legal degrees. Yet from corporate boardrooms to Congress, from health-care companies to the courts, from non-profit organizations to universities, men are far more likely than women to rise to the highest paying and most prestigious leadership roles.
Despite decades of investment in women’s leadership programs, progress in advancing women has stalled. AAUW is committed to closing the gender leadership gap once and for all.
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Gender Equity Executive Leadership Program
The Gender Equity Executive Leadership Program, developed by USAID and Georgetown University McDonough School of Business, delivers a best-in-class curriculum that spans the breadth of the employee life cycle. The course empowers the employees of partner organizations—including administrators, operational area managers, and other key decision-makers at all levels—to effectively integrate gender equality initiatives within their corporate structure.
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Why focus on women in leadership?
In no country in the world do women have an equal role in setting policies, allocating resources, leading companies, or shaping markets. In many countries, more women are working than ever before, but compared to their male counterparts, they are not earning as much, rising as high, or being afforded an equal voice at work, at home, or in the community. Half the world’s talent is left untapped, and we cannot make progress on gender equality—or any other issues—unless women can achieve their full potential.
From health care and business to public office and the courts, women are underrepresented and undervalued. Yet women’s representation in leadership positions has significant implications for health, justice, and prosperity for everyone.
Women are an untapped and underutilized talent pool. Leadership should look like the communities it serves, and that includes gender diversity in global health.
Anita Zaidi President, Gender Equality
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Her New Standard
When women ascend to leadership positions, the collective only gets stronger.
We are a team of organizational leaders, PhDs, and leadership consultants with rich, real-life experience. We are passionate and committed about guiding organizations to maximize their female talent so they reach their fullest potential –– crushing that proverbial glass ceiling.
We created Her New Standard to set a new norm for women leaders –– to help them rise up in today’s competitive world and make their mark. We understand organizational systems, cultural dynamics and women. Our women’s leadership development programs stimulate change that leads to breaking through barriers so women can create their own new standard.
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We are here to change the world.
No matter who you are or where you live, intersectional gender stereotypes are hurting you and those you love. Through film, education, and activism, The Representation Project awakens consciousness, spotlights the cost of these stereotypes, and invites everyone to build a more equitable future.
Millions of people have been touched by our storytelling and reached by our activism and resources. Jennifer Siebel Newsom founded The Representation Project in 2011 with her groundbreaking film Miss Representation, igniting a national conversation about sexism in the media. The Mask You Live In, Jennifer’s second documentary, showcased how harmful American masculinity can be for boys and young men.
These documentaries on limiting gender narratives have been viewed nearly 30 million times, with our film curricula changing the lives of over 2 million students. Siebel Newsom’s prescience has born true: that storytelling opens hearts and minds like nothing else, shifting attitudes and behaviors. This is culture transformation at its best and creates a more equitable world where everyone can reach their full potential.
Together, we are bending the long arc of history toward intersectional gender justice. This is a person-by-person and community movement.
Please join us. We need you.
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Women Leaders Make a Difference.
Women Lead Change is dedicated to the development, advancement and promotion of women, their organizations, and to impacting the economy and future workforce.
Take Charge. Lead Change.
As a volunteer group of dedicated women who first started a women’s leadership conference in Eastern Iowa in 2007, Women Lead Change has come a long way. It was with their original intent of providing leadership development specific to women in the workplace that led us to the events and programming hosted now. Looking forward to progress and the years ahead