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Brand Me – A Journey Through Choices for Talented Women
ELP, in partnership with 20-first, offers women leaders a two day workshop to help them develop the skills and confidence to transition successfully into their next leadership role
Legos Aren't Just For Boys Anymore
Having saved the Lego Group at a time when the company was losing almost $1 million a day, CEO Jørgen Vig Knudstorp is now looking to “reach the other 50 percent of the world’s children” by launching the new Lego Friends line aimed at girls.
Gen Y Women At Work
In an article recently published in The Huffington Post, Business and Professional Women’s Foundation CEO Deborah Frett discusses four important lessons gleaned from the responses to BPW Foundation’s recent Gen Y Women in the Workplace survey, answered by more than 660 American women.
Men Dominate Finance
In his press release, Simon Clark at Bloomberg shows how banks, insurers and asset managershave low percentage of women on their boards.
20-first's Blog Moves to Harvard Business Review
Avivah Wittenberg-Cox has been invited to become a regular blogger at Harvard Business Review. So you’ll now find our usual monthly commentary on all things gender on the HBR site in addition to our newsletter.
Girls + Math = Win-Win
In a new op-ed piece in the L.A. Times, Rosalind C. Barnett and Caryl Rivers call for an end to studies attempting to prove that males are innately superior to females in math. Barnett and Rivers cite a recent study that looked at test scores from 500,000 fourth- and eight-graders in 86 countries and found basically no gender differences between boys and girls in math performance.
RELEASED! 20-first's Annual Global Gender Balance Scorecard
In this 3rd annual survey, the 20-first Global Gender Balance Scorecard looks at a single measure of progress: the gender balance of the Executive Committe of the TOP 100 companies in three key regions of the globe.
Top 10 Female CEOs
A contributor to The New Agenda offers up one person’s opinion of which women rate as The 10 Most Successful Female CEOs of All Time.
Indian Women Fight For Their Voice in Parliament
The Women’s Reservation Bill — which went through a 13-year debate among political parties before passing the Indian Parliament’s upper house — has no hope of passing in the lower house for at least another year. The bill would amend the Constitution to ensure that 1/3 of Parliament and state assembly seats are reserved for women.
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