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 [...]
Let's Move the Needle Forward with Intention! By Pamela Antil and Tammy Letourneau As the primary authors of the 2014 final report of the ICMA Task Force on Women in the Profession, we'd like give you the straight scoop here on what the "#13Percent" conversation is and isn't really about. The percentage of women in [...]
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 [...]
Journalist and Lean In contributor Jessica Bennett explores the phenomenon of "manterrupting" (and what we can do to stop it!). By Jessica Bennett, LeanIn.org Remember back in 2009 when Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift’s acceptance speech at the MTV Video Music Awards? He grabbed the microphone from her and said, “I’m gonna let you finish [...]
Amber Cameron on Are YOU Selling Yourself Short on Salary Negotiations? By Amber Cameron, Strategic Operations Manager – City of Palo Alto, CA “Is it too greedy?” my friend asks. “Absolutely not! You deserve to be paid your value, besides you need to buck this trend of women shying away from negotiating,” I advise. I’ve had [...]
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 [...]
10 Things You Need to Manage Before You Manage Others By Susan Ritchie Making a move into your first leadership or management post can be a daunting experience. I remember how unprepared I felt and cringe at the memory of leading my first team meeting. When a member of my team got up part way [...]
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 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 [...]
By Emily Peck, Huffpost Business Things are improving so slowly for women in America that we aren’t going to achieve gender equality at the top for another 100 years, according to a report released by McKinsey & Co. earlier this month. It's not for the reasons you might think -- i.e., it's not a “mommy [...]