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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 [...]
Welcome! We're glad you found your way to our new website. 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 in ALL areas [...]
By Jo Miller, Founding Editor of Be Leaderly.com Have conversations with your mentor gotten a bit repetitive lately? Perhaps you approached someone you admire, and bravely asked that person to become your mentor. And they said “yes!” But a year into the relationship, those monthly mentoring conversations don’t seem to invigorate you like they used [...]
Ever feel like you have to prove yourself more than men? Learn tactics for demonstrating your competence. 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 [...]
Learn how to spot gender bias—and hear successful women’s strategies for navigating it 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" Four different patterns of gender bias shape today’s workplaces. [...]
Evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men—and that to succeed, confidence matters as much as competence. Here's why, and what to do about it. By: KATTY KAY AND CLAIRE SHIPMAN Reprinted from The Atlantic magazine For years, we women have kept our heads down and played by the rules. We’ve been certain that [...]
By: Margie Warrell Women may be graduating from U.S. colleges faster than men (3:2), but American women still earn just 77 cents for every dollar that men earn, and fill only 14% of Fortune 500 boardroom seats! In Australia, which has one of the highest educated female populations in the world, the needle on the [...]
Reprinted from Forbes.com By Bonnie Marcus No one with ambition has come under fire more than Hillary Clinton. As early as 2006, a survey by The New York Observer found a “virtual cottage industry” of anti-Clinton literature. Her political career, especially her bid for the 2016 presidency, has only increased the verbal assaults. One such [...]