News
League Symposium Featured Speaker: Liz O’Donnell on How Caring For Aging Parents Affects a Career
The Crisis Facing America's Working Daughters Many are familiar with the challenges faced by working moms, but the troubles of women with aging parents are unseen and widely ignored. By Liz O'Donnell, Author, Mogul, Mom [...]
Heroes Vs. Heroines: How Are We Different?
Women CAN BE Heroines in Their Own Right... By Carol Morgan, Professor, Wright State University While growing up, we were socialized to think that heroes were mainly men. Think about it. We’ve all grown up [...]
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 [...]