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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

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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

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"How Women Mean Business" Now Available in French

Following up on the success of the English version of Avivah Wittenberg-Cox’s second book “How Women Mean Business” is available in French under the title “Mixité dans l’entreprise, mode d’emploi”

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Head of Council of Women World Leaders on Problems Women Face

Laura Liswood identifies three steps to change: Pain, gain, vision

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