Sentences with phrase «expand leadership of women»
She noted that one question will center on how they plan to expand leadership of women and women of color in the Council's core leadership, which is made up of deputy leaders, majority leaders and the chairs of the Finance and Land Use committees.
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• Since its founding six years ago, 80 % of women in the global executive leadership program have been promoted or had responsibilities «significantly expanded.»
As president and CEO of Catalyst, an organization committed to expanding opportunities for women and business worldwide, I'm often asked why there are still so few women in senior leadership roles — like Meg Whitman, president and CEO of Hewlett Packard — and what forward - thinking men and women can do about it.
The Sara Kirke Awards for Entrepreneurship and Innovation recognizes leading women executives who have shown the most outstanding technological innovation and corporate leadership — leadership that has significantly expanded the frontiers of Canada's advanced technology industry.
The authors usefully highlight the ways in which the evangelical fervor of the nineteenth century gave women considerably expanded space for social leadership, and they view people such as Matthews and Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormons, as reacting, at least in significant part, to this challenge to patriarchy.
Under Quinn's leadership, the Council passed legislation that expanded the number of minority - and women - owned businesses and enterprises that can participate in city contracts, a disclosure law to clamp down on pregnancy service centers operated by anti-choice groups that trick women seeking reproductive health services and legislation that levies penalties on drivers who promote prostitution.
(Wikipedia): «Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self - reliance, but above all for achieving Swaraj — the independence of India from foreign domination.»
We have also expanded the number of women in positions of firm leadership, either as Office Managing Partners, practice section leaders, or committee chairs.