By Pamela Antil - Assistant City Administrator, Santa Barbara, CA Recently, my family and I moved from Palo Alto in the San Francisco Bay Area to the central coast of California for me to accept the Assistant City Administrator position in Santa Barbara. While my husband Dave and I had previously lived in southern California [...]
Making the Most of YOUR Conference Experience Are you headed to the ICMA Conference in San Antonio, your state association meeting or regional luncheon? Regardless of where you are headed, you'll want to make the most of your time and your organization's investment in you while you attend the event. But how do you get 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Mayor Nan Whaley, flanked by Keary McCarthy (right) with Innovation Ohio, expectant mother, Liz Brown (center), and other city officials announces the city's new parental leave policy. See the news announcement HERE
Reposted from CNN.com By Ray Sanchez and Laura Smith-Spark, CNN Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver made history Friday as the first two women to graduate from the U.S. Army's elite Ranger School. The two received their tabs as part of Ranger Class 08-15 at Fort Benning, Georgia, marking a historic moment in [...]
Facebook is at the forefront of a radical workplace shift — and every business in America should take notice...... Graphic Credit: Think Progress Reprinted from Business Insider/Aol.Jobs.com By: Rachel Gillett After his daughter's 5 a.m. feeding during the first few months after she was born, Adam Isserlis would lie back in bed with his newborn child [...]
Reprinted from MAKERS Team & The Washington Post Are you holding your own daughter back? Here are 5 ways to raise girls to be leaders. Could we be hindering our daughters from becoming strong leaders? According to the Washington Post, new research from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and its Making Caring Common project found [...]