Inspiring the Industry
The female leadership at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach, REALTORS ® and Trident Group serve as an inspiration for other women seeking to rise in real estate or in any business — and they offer some good advice, as well.
How can there be such a dearth of
female leadership at big law firms if nearly as many women as men are admitted to law schools today?
«National women leaders should be a reference point, but not a replacement for
female leadership at the local church level.»
«National women leaders should be a reference point,» she said, «but not a replacement for
female leadership at the local church level.»
Not exact matches
Eve Ellis, a financial adviser and portfolio manager
at Morgan Stanley's Matterhorn Group, notes that no causal link has yet been drawn between
female leadership and improved performance.
Aidis looked
at data in five key categories: general business environment, accessibility of resources, women's rights and the prevalence of women in
leadership roles, potential for high - growth
female - owned businesses, and the entrepreneurship pipeline — the category Canada scored lowest in.
I think we started
at 30 %
female in senior
leadership positions.
Whether it's
leadership mentors
at work, or
females outside of work with whom you can vent, it's important to have a strong support network.
Meanwhile, only 28 percent of Facebook's
leadership team is
female, the same percentage as
at Twitter.
A lack of
female leadership in some fields leads to fewer
female mentors and fewer companies where women have a position
at the upper echelons of the organization, which it turn results in fewer women entering that industry and becoming leaders themselves.
Of the dozen companies Fortune included in that ranking, Indiegogo led the way with
female employees comprising 43 % of its
leadership, while Cisco and Pinterest were
at the bottom with 19 % each.
At Brand Union, for example, we have reset our management teams in Paris and New York under
female leadership.
Xerox has long assigned numbers to its employment objectives, which is perhaps why the company is setting its sights even higher: It is aiming for 34 % of the executive
leadership team to be
female within the next five years (up from 28 % currently), according to Damika Arnold, global diversity and inclusion leader
at Xerox.
In Pinterest's version, the company commits to interviewing
at least one person from an underrepresented background and one
female candidate for every open
leadership position.
Name: Kelly Blackett Title: Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Corporate Communications Areas of responsibility: Human resources, learning and development, corporate communications Years with CWB Financial Group: 3 Career history: 17 years with General Electric in Canada holding a series of progressively responsible human resources
leadership roles
at GE Capital and GE Corporate, supporting businesses within Canada as well as globally Education: Bachelor of Commerce with Distinction from the University of Alberta Community involvement: Sits on the Board of Trustees for the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation, member of the MacEwan Business School Advisory Board, and past mentor with MORE, a program providing cross-business mentorship to
female leaders in Edmonton's business community
The MSCI Canada IMI Women's
Leadership Select Index is based on the MSCI Canada IMI Index and aims to include companies which are leaders in Canada in terms of
female representation on boards and in executive
leadership positions and have
at least 30 %
female directors, or
at least three
female directors, or two
female directors and one woman in a current executive
leadership role.
CALGARY — Days after a
female candidate cited intolerable abuse as her reason for pulling out of the race for the
leadership of the Alberta Conservatives, a male candidate says he has also had verbal threats aimed
at him.
What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on
female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male
leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began
at the resurrection.
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I am a child of the 80s and 90s and, as such, I had the privilege of having my first political experiences framed
at a time of unprecedently
female leadership in the UK.
D'Ambrosio initially said he would resign from his
leadership position when Antoniello did, along with Jeanette Milione, second
female vice chairwoman, but he is staying on
at least long enough to shepherd the party through to a permanent leader.
Taken together they make for a worrying track record in a Labour
leadership candidate, particularly
at a time when the party is under so much criticism for having never elected a
female leader.
Several women, including Winger, Cloninger and Tatum, will also be among those
at Monday's pre-dinner event
at Christie's Auction House in Rockefeller Plaza performing in a piece that Bennett created where women, standing on ladders, share stories about the importance of
female leadership.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D., N.Y.) argued during a Tuesday panel
at the Center for American Progress Ideas Festival that having
females in
leadership roles would solve problems, saying, «If it wasn't Lehman Brothers but Lehman Sisters, we might not have had the financial collapse.»
And although Zuber is not the first women to chair the board, NSF's press release touts her as part of the first all -
female leadership team
at the agency, joining NSF Director France Córdova and the board's new vice-chair, Diane Souvaine, a theoretical computer scientist and vice provost for research
at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts.
Today
at the summit, Hidalgo will launch an initiative aimed
at fostering
female leadership on climate issues
at the city level.
The authors examined website photos of the departmental
leadership at the top 50 medical schools in the United States and developed the «moustache index,» which compares the number of
female department leaders to mustachioed department leaders.
Researchers
at Vanderbilt University's Peabody College published the update in the December 2014 issue of Psychological Science, writing: «For both males and
females, mathematical precocity early in life predicts later creative contributions and
leadership in critical occupational roles.»
Approximately equal numbers of women and men enter and graduate from medical school in the United States and United Kingdom.1 2 In northern and eastern European countries such as Russia, Finland, Hungary, and Serbia, women account for more than 50 % of the active physicians3; in the United Kingdom and United States, they represent 47 % and 33 % respectively.4 5 Even in Japan, the nation in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development with the lowest percentage of
female physicians, representation doubled between 1986 and 2012.3 6 However, progress in academic medicine continues to lag, with women accounting for less than 30 % of clinical faculty overall and for less than 20 % of those
at the highest grade or in
leadership positions.7 - 9 Understanding the extent to which this underrepresentation affects high impact research is critical because of the implicit bias it introduces to the research agenda, influencing future clinical practice.10 11 Given the importance of publication for tenure and promotion, 12 women's publication in high impact journals also provides insights into the degree to which the gender gap can be expected to close.
At NCI the Sallie Rosen Kaplan postdoctoral fellowship for women in cancer research, provides additional mentoring opportunities, seminars, and workshops designed to strengthen
leadership skills over a one - year period, which should enable
female postdoctoral fellows to feel better equipped to transition to independent research careers.
Brian Crosby, CEO of the Hope Learning Trust in York, which runs several primary and secondary schools, said: «It is a waste of our most valuable resource not to see
female colleagues develop into
leadership at a rate comparable with male colleagues.
The report said staff views were «polarised» about the
leadership of the school, while «some
female members of staff complained that
at times they are spoken to in a manner which they find intimidating».
And one of the examples was the great Twitter chat that started off being about having more
female leaders in keynote conferences — doing keynotes
at conferences — which very quickly became a much wider engagement about challenges to women in
leadership, and how as a group we can support each other.
And, in an unprecedented discussion
at The Markets, a group of
female executives in publishing will take up the question of why the corporate
leadership in so many publishing houses today remains so predominantly male while so much of the workforce is made up of highly capable women.
He uses the narrative device of a fictitious church
leadership team to illustrate his points in an engaging manner and offers us a professional book, for male and
female leaders, written
at a trade level.
TALK Thelma Golden of the Studio Museum in Harlem is among four
female museum directors gathered
at the New School in New York to discuss solutions to gender inequality in art - world
leadership.
Thelma Golden of the Studio Museum in Harlem was among four
female museum directors gathered
at the New School in New York to discuss solutions to gender inequality in art - world
leadership.
According to recent studies published by the AIA (the national professional association of architects) and AIGA (the professional association for design) reveal that, while design and architecture programs attract
female and minority students, «the professions don't retain them,» explains design critic Alexandra Lange, «and the numbers are particularly small
at the
leadership level.»
Concerns include a deficit of
female leadership due to the so - called «leaky pipeline» (e.g., Goulden et al., 2011), a lack of safety and inclusivity
at field locations (Clancy et al., 2014; Nelson et al., 2017), and explorations of ways in which research agendas have discounted contributions of women (e.g., Carey et al. 2016).
While more than 50 % of most firms» trainee intakes are
female, this balance has tailed off markedly by partnership and, as a consequence, when it comes to
leadership positions
at either a firmwide or practice level.
Baker & McKenzie Chicago, IL Talented attorneys thrive
at this firm, which provides
female partners with access to customized coaching, global
leadership training and a major women's initiative.
The video series features five inspiring, talented, and leading
female legal staff
at Fish, and is designed to give us more of a personal perspective into Fish women, by posing to each five, fairly broad ranging and open questions — from
leadership lessons they have learned (sometimes with difficulty) to books on their bedside tables.
The first looks
at leadership roles in the business sector by examining
female representation in senior positions
at major corporations in Toronto.
Even though women make up about half of law school graduating classes, and are hired
at a roughly equivalent rate as young associates,
female attorneys seem to vanish as years go by, and disappear almost entirely
at the highest levels of law firm
leadership.