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 [...]
Learn how to spot gender bias—and hear successful women’s strategies for navigating it 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" Four different patterns of gender bias shape today’s workplaces. [...]
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 [...]
Reprinted from Forbes.com By Bonnie Marcus No one with ambition has come under fire more than Hillary Clinton. As early as 2006, a survey by The New York Observer found a “virtual cottage industry” of anti-Clinton literature. Her political career, especially her bid for the 2016 presidency, has only increased the verbal assaults. One such [...]
Are you going to the ICMA conference in Seattle in September? Do you want to show your support for all things #13Percent? If so, write these sessions down in ink so you won’t miss a single opportunity to talk about gender equity in local government leadership. Click HERE for convenient list of Women's Sessions at [...]
Reprinted from BusinessInsider.com By: Skye Gould and Richard Feloni Your level of job satisfaction may have something to do with how well your role fits your personality. The Myers Briggs Personality Type Indicator personality test, which measures preferences like introversion and extroversion, has been part of business culture for decades. Today about 80% of the Fortune 500 and [...]
Why Transportation Agencies Need More Women Engineers Reprinted from Governing.com By Daniel C. Vock North Carolina is trying to recruit girls for careers in engineering not only to fill anticipated vacancies but also because hiring more women could make the roads safer. The North Carolina Department of Transportation (DOT) is using newspapers, masking tape and [...]
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 [...]