By Bonnie Svrcek - Deputy City Manager, City of Lynchburg, VA Last week I had the opportunity and privilege of presenting to the Virginia Municipal League's Women in Municipal Government breakfast on the Status of Women in Local Government in Virginia. The audience was 99 percent local elected female officials from mostly cities and towns throughout the [...]
Learn how to navigate assumptions that are often triggered by motherhood By Joan C. Williams, Distinguished professor of law at the University of California, Hastings College of Law and co-author of What Works for Women at Work: Four Patterns Working Women Need to Know The "What Works for Women at Work" video series helps you [...]
How hiring a gender-diverse workforce can improve a company's bottom line Reprinted from Gallup.com By Sangeeta Bharadwaj Badal Gender diversity is vital to any workplace. Not just because it's a laudable goal; it simply makes bottom-line business sense. If you need proof, look no further than a recent Gallup study, which finds that hiring a [...]
Are you holding your own daughter back? Here are 5 ways to raise girls to be leaders. Reprinted from MAKERS Team & The Washington Post Photo Credit: Klaus mVedfelt via Getty Images Could we be hindering our daughters from becoming strong leaders? According to the Washington Post, new research from the Harvard Graduate School of [...]