By Lisa K. Goldman, City Manager - Burlingame, CA A few weeks ago, a colleague and I were just back from Thanksgiving break and chatting about how we’d spent our day. Much to my horror, my colleague mentioned that she had purchased all the food and cooked Thanksgiving dinner for her boyfriend’s entire family of [...]
By Kathy Spillar, Executive Director, FMF (Parent group of National Center for Women & Policing) As the crisis continues to unfold in Baltimore and in communities across the country, it becomes increasingly clear that hiring the right types of police officers is imperative to improving police-community relations. In the Winter 2015 issue of Ms., I outlined why [...]
By Thomas I Miller, President - National Research Center, Inc. For generations, the pronoun for doctors and lawyers was “he.” In the last twenty years things changed. Most everyone would say “improved.” Recent statistics show that nearly half of all U.S. medical school graduates in 2014 were women and the same percentage applied to law [...]
By Mary Jacobs, Assistant City Manager - Sierra Vista, AZ I'm thrilled to see the momentum building toward mentoring and supporting more women at the CAO level in local government. I've had the honor and privilege of knowing some exceptional women who have, and continue to lead cities, towns and counties all across the country. [...]
Women's Career Resources Lunch – The Confidence Code By Linda Kelly Recently, I had the pleasure of taking 10 of our female staff members to the 2015 Women's Career Resources Lunch in Palo Alto. It was about a two-hour, 100-mile drive each way, so the ability for all of us to go together in a Town [...]
By Wally Bobkiewicz - City Manager, Evanston, IL I recently spoke with a talented female staff member who is a senior member of one of our department management teams. She has an advanced professional degree and has been with the City for several years. Her department director and I had discussed departmental organization and the [...]
Welcome! Join the League for FREE Today! The League of Women in Government (LWG) was created to serve as the umbrella organization to support local and statewide organizations that advance women in local government leadership. We want to move the needle forward on the number of women serving at the most senior and executive levels [...]
Let's Get Our Own House in Order By Theodore Staton - City Manager, Upper Arlington, OH Last week, I was on a panel at the Ohio Municipal League conference on the value and benefits of adopting the council-manager form of government. While sitting with my fellow panelists, I reflected that the entire panel was comprised of [...]
By Karen Daly - City Manager, City of Hutto, TX Summer has passed, but things are still heating up in Texas! Texas Women Leading Government started earlier this year by holding four lunch meetings across the State. We had over 200 women participate in these lunches to talk about what they would like to do to change [...]
By Tamara Letourneau - Assistant Chief Executive Officer, City of Costa Mesa CA Work/life balance is a topic that women discuss and think about often. It is the subject of discussion at many water coolers, conferences and lunches with our colleagues. Whether you have a family now or you are thinking about starting one, the [...]