Kristen Griest on Course to Become First Female Army Officer Trained to Lead Troops Into Combat By Katie Rogers, Reprinted from the The New York Times Kristen Griest was among the first women to ever graduate from the Army’s elite Ranger school, and after Thursday, she will become the first woman able to lead [...]
By LWG Editor We are excited to announce that the League reached over 1,000 followers this month on TWITTER! Additionally, earlier this month we launched our new Instagram page to post our Quote of the Day and other inspirational messages. Follow us on INSTAGRAM HERE to get this great new content from the League of Women in [...]
Making cities less dangerous and more livable for women actually makes them better for everyone. By Kate Abbey-Lambertz, Reprinted from Huffpost Women At first glance, a gathering of 60 or so women in Detroit earlier this month looked like a typical networking event — a few speeches, lots of mingling, plenty of wine. But instead [...]
The incredible double standard of rudeness By Jeff Guo, Reprinted from The Washington Post There's a delicious scene in the first episode of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt,” Tina Fey’s comedy about a woman rescued from an apocalypse cult. Freshly liberated from their underground prison, Kimmy and the other hostages go on the “Today” show, where Matt [...]
Sheryl Sandberg admits she was terrified to step onto the TED stage in 2010 — because she was going to talk, for the first time, about the lonely experience of being a woman in the top tiers of business. Millions of views (and a best-selling book) later, the Facebook COO talks with the woman who [...]
By Marianne Cooper, Ph.D., Clayman Institute for Gender Research at Stanford University In their blog post, “New Research Shows Success Doesn’t Make Women Less Likable,” Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman conclude from their analysis of assessments of men and women leaders who have come through their leadership program that “likeability and success actually go together remarkably [...]
Women earning less over the course of their careers could spell poverty in retirement—and affect the entire U.S. economy. By Lydia Dishman, Reposted from Fast Company Just ahead of Equal Pay Day (April 12) Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.), ranking member of the U.S. Congress Joint Economic Committee (JEC) released a new report that takes another [...]
By Jan Perkins, Former City Manager and ICMA Senior Advisor/West Region Liaison There are many reasons women are under-represented as chief executives in local governments (and many other areas in business and government as well). There’s one thing women are especially well-positioned to do to change that – and that is to be open [...]
Women Can’t Wait Until 2059 For Equal Pay The Pay Gap Adds Up! By Laura Bates, Founder - The Everyday Sexism Project (article reposted via TIMEIdeas) April 12 marks Equal Pay Day—symbolizing how far into the year women have to work on average before their earnings catch up with what men earned in the previous [...]
The Gender Pay Gap Has Barely Budged Since the ’90s. By Stephanie Hallett, reposted from msmagazine.com Each year in April we mark the passage of Equal Pay Day—in 2016 it falls on April 12—a symbolic date that marks how far into the year women must work to finally make as much as men were paid the previous [...]