By Mayor Sly James - Kansas City, MO As Mayor, I attend meetings all across the City and when I do, I often find myself surrounded by men. It’s not enough to point that fact out. I want to do my part to change it. That means taking action steps to ensure that city government works well for [...]
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 [...]
"Women are still underrepresented at every level in the corporate pipeline. Many people assume this is because women are leaving companies at higher rates than men or due to difficulties balancing work and family. However, our analysis tells a more complex story: women face greater barriers to advancement and a steeper path to senior leadership." [...]
How some men in business are rated as "ideal workers" while women aren't rated similarly. BU Professor's study shows that we don’t police men’s time the way that we police women’s time. 5/7/15 -- Boston, MassachusettsQuestrom professor Erin Reid for BU Research story on businessmen who fake working 80 hour weeks to appear to [...]
Sometimes we overlook how easy it is for women to be supportive of one another. By Linda Kelly - Town Manager, Town of Windsor CA Keynote speaker at the ICMA Annual Conference on Sunday, September 27, 2015 was Shawn Achor, author of The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and [...]
WSJ findings similar for the private sector as they are for women in the public sector. Read on... By Pamela Antil, Assistant City Administrator, City of Santa Barbara CA Last week, the Wall Street Journal published a comprehensive series of articles about what's holding women back in the workplace. Although the articles are almost exclusively related to our [...]
So, you're back from your conference? How are you going to follow-up with the people you met? Here's some good advice... By Darrah Brustein You’ve attended a networking event. Now what? You have a pocket full of business cards and no idea what to do with them. Business cards have no value if you don’t use [...]
By Pamela Antil, Assistant City Administrator, City of Santa Barbara, CA and President of the League of Women in Government We've all seen the statistics -- women earn about 74 percent of the pay of their male counterparts. We represent less than 15 percent of the top executive spots in public sector, where we work, and [...]
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