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Guest Bloggers Leisha DeHart-Davis, PhD & Tope Olofintuyi on Gender Mainstreaming the Local Government Workplace
How can local governments create gender-inclusive workplaces? By Leisha DeHart-Davis, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill & Tope Olofintuyi, Research Assistant, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill How can local governments create gender-inclusive workplaces? [...]
Guest Video Blogger: Julia Novak on Lessons from the Mound
We hope you enjoy this presentation from Julia Novak, founder and president of The Novak Consulting Group. This audio/video presentation was originally given by Julia Novak in July 2016at the Inspiring Women in Public Administration Conference 2016, [...]
Guest Blogger Dr. Frank Benest on Storytelling–A Powerful Way to Lead and Communicate
Dr. Frank Benest explains how to persuasively use stories to influence public policy decisions. By Frank Benest, ICMA Liaison for Next Generation Initiatives I’m a traffic engineer in a small midwestern city. I just had [...]
Stanford Study: Men Self-Cite as Experts 56 Percent More Than Women. Why?
New study finds that men are often their own favorite experts on any given subject By Christopher Ingraham, Reprinted from The Washington Post A fascinating new working paper finds that men are far more likely than [...]
Today’s Infographic: Women are Key Drivers on Economic Growth
Investing in women is not only the right thing to do, but also the smart thing to do! Source: World Economic Forum Gender Gap Report World Economic Forum Gender Gap Report - Preface By Klaus Schwab, Founder [...]
How Can We Get More Black Women Into Executive Positions?
From the article, Getting More Black Women into the C-Suite from HBR.org By Melinda Marshall and Tai Wingfield In late 2014, poised to publish a report on women's ambition, we stumbled on a startling fact: [...]