Resources

2008
Michael Gurian with Barbara Annis

Using gender science to create success in business

http://www.genderleadership.com/leadership_and_the_sexes.html

Source: http://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Sexes-Science-Business-non-Fran
Type: Book

2011

Indeed, at a time when women have gained more standing in politics and society, they have not made equal progress at the top of corporate America. Women comprise half of the workforce but hold only 16% of the board seats in Fortune 500 companies. More than 10% of those companies have no women serving on their boards.

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article.cfm?articleid=2861

Source: Knowledge at Wharton
Type: Research Report- Non Profit Org

2010 January 29

Women have always been drawn to finance in smaller numbers than men. But after nearly two decades of increased hiring and promotion of women on Wall Street, their ranks appear to be shrinking again. The reasons are varied and unclear. But some finance executives say that as the work force has shrunk over all in finance, there was bound to be a noticeable impact on women because their numbers were smaller to begin with. They also cite the big banks’ increasing reliance on trading, a part of the business that has been especially difficult for women to penetrate.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/looking-for-women-in-wall-streets-top-ranks/

Source: New York Times
Type: Article

2010 October

As the number of women participating in the workforce grows, their potential influence on business is becoming ever more important. Seventy-two percent of respondents to a recent McKinsey survey believe there is a direct connection between a company’s gender diversity and its financial success. Indeed, the share saying so has risen in the past year, even in the face of continued economic turmoil. Yet companies have not so far successfully bridged the gap between men and women in the top levels of management. This is not surprising, since the survey shows that diversity isn’t a high priority at most companies and that there’s great variability in the number of gender-diversity policies that companies have pursued.

https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Moving_women_to_the_top_McKinsey_Global_Survey_results_2686?pagenum=2

Source: McKinsey & Company
Type: Research Report - For Profit Org

2006
Kathryn Dindia, in Sex Differences and Similarities in Communication, K. Dindia & D.J. Canary (Eds.)

Framing Sex Differences and Similarities

http://books.google.ca/books?id=suPG_BZty3kC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=men+are+from+south+dakota+women+are+from+north+dakota&source=bl&ots=6K_JS9WzOp&sig=6975SHwkpKxu6EQ3ypyrtvrh_nU&hl=en&ei=PpmbTsebMNHJsQKh1-zGBA&sa=X&oi=b

Source: http://books.google.ca/books?id=suPG_BZty3kC&pg=PA3&lpg=PA3&dq=m
Type: Book

2010 January 22

Let's face it, we've seen this all before. Every few years, Wall Street rides the bull, tumbles off and gets back up again. Only this time, Wall Street almost didn't rise again. Contrite chief executives have vowed this will never happen again, pointing to tighter regulations and newer risk models. This sounds suspiciously like consensus thinking. It's time for a deeper view.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/story/print?guid=D3F78B28-C3E3-46D8-A7BD-B09AB641C0DA

Source: MarketWatch
Type: Article

2011 May

A decade into the 21st century, as businesses, markets, and customers are increasingly connected through the global economy, diverse points of view are essential to the growth of profitable corporations. Missing Pieces shows that, six years after the first Alliance for Board Diversity (ABD) Census, not much has changed. While research points decisively to the benefits of a diverse boardroom— including enhanced financial performance—white men continue to dominate corporate boards. Women and minorities are still vastly underrepresented.

http://www.catalyst.org/file/469/abd_2010_census.pdf

Source: Alliance for Board Diversity
Type: Research Report - Non Profit Org

2009 February 7

Banks around the world desperately want bailouts of billions of dollars, but they also have another need they’re unaware of: women, women and women.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/08/opinion/08kristof.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Mistresses of the Universe&st=cse

Source: New York Times
Type: Article

2002 April 1

Although women have made enormous gains in the business world--they hold seats on corporate boards and run major companies--they still comprise only 10% of senior managers in Fortune 500 companies. What will it take to shatter the glass ceiling? According to Debra Meyerson and Joyce Fletcher, it's not a revolution but a strategy of small wins--a series of incremental changes aimed at the subtle discriminatory forces that still reside in organizations. It used to be easy to spot gender discrimination in the corporate world, but today overt displays are rare. Instead, discrimination against women lingers in common work practices and cultural norms that appear unbiased. Gender bias, the authors say, will be undone only by a persistent campaign of incremental changes that discover and destroy the deeply embedded roots of discrimination.

http://hbr.org/product/modest-manifesto-for-shattering-the-glass-ceiling-hbr-onpoint-enhanced-edition/an/9624-PDF-ENG

Source: Harvard Business Review
Type: Research Report - Non Profit Org

2011 October 4

“It is more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier,” says Pan African Parliament Women’s Conference President, Mavis Matladi of South Africa as she leads the call for the inclusion of more women in UN peace and reconstruction negotiations. According to Matladi, there has never been a female U.N. chief peace negotiator, fewer than eight percent of all negotiating delegations in U.N. mediated peace processes are women, and only three percent of all peace agreement signatories are women.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/shenegotiates/2011/10/04/more-dangerous-to-be-a-woman-than-a-soldier/

Source: Forbes
Type: Article

2010 October 7

Nationwide, about one in 18 women working full time earned $100,000 or more in 2009, a jump of 14 percent over two years, according to new census figures. In contrast, one in seven men made that much, up just 4 percent.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/06/AR2010100607229.html

Source: The Washington Post
Type: Article

Since 1972, the Center has expanded the possibilities for women and girls in this country. They have succeeded in getting new laws on the books and enforced; litigating ground-breaking cases all the way to the Supreme Court, and educating the public about ways to make laws and public policies work for women and their families.

http://www.nwlc.org/

Source: National Women's Law Center
Type: Website

2004
Anna Fels

Ambition in women's changing lives

http://books.google.ca/books?id=OzsMhdmPY0EC&printsec=frontcover&dq=necessary+dreams&hl=en&ei=2pmbTpSZOofHsQL8uenpBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false

Source: http://www.amazon.com/Necessary-Dreams-Ambition-Womens-Changing/
Type: Book

2010 July

Existing compensation systems for lawyers open the door to gender bias because they contain tremendous subjectivity, lack transparency, and because so much of the negotiation surrounding salaries takes place out of sight. This report raises doubts about the conventional wisdom that women’s family responsibilities and lack of time for rainmaking are the key reasons why women partners make 22% less than men.

http://www.pardc.org/PressReleases/July_7_2010.shtml

Source: Project For Attorney Retention, UC Hastings College of Law
Type: Research Report - Non Profit Org

2011

Increasingly the number of women in science and technology has been an important goal for universities and industries, and substantial progress has surely been made. More women than ever major in so-called STEM fields.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/education/edlife/where-the-women-are-biology.html?_r=3&ref=women

Source: The New York Times
Type: Article

2010
Gloria Feldt

Tools for leading an unlimited life.

http://books.google.com/books/about/No_Excuses.html?id=jjokqadN5UAC

Source: http://www.amazon.com/No-Excuses-Women-Change-Think/dp/B004NSVF5
Type: Book

2008

Women will not be a familiar sight in executive offices and boardrooms until companies change the way they do business. Companies must embrace strategies to recruit, retain and promote women, creating a pipeline of talent extending all the way to the top. This report offers compelling case studies of companies that are bringing about change. It also features interviews with women across generations who share their stories.

http://www.foew.com/SiteData/doc/2008Womens_Report/efd9f2822ad017d79a53719286a6bbf6/2008Womens_Report.pdf

Source: Forum of Executive Women
Type: Research Report - Non Profit Org

2010

To answer the above question, we content analyzed the portrayal of occupations across every first run G-rated film theatrically released between September 5, 2006 and September 7, 2009.

http://www.thegeenadavisinstitute.org/downloads/KeyFindings_OccupAspirations.pdf

Source: The Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media
Type: Research Report - Non Profit Org

2011 September

This paper explores the intersection of two issues that often are thought of separately: the need for sustained economic recovery in the United States, and the status of women’s entrepreneurship. Despite recent gains, women still lag behind men on key measures of startup activity, and their firms tend not to grow or prosper nearly as much. Typically, this is seen as a ―women’s‖ issue. It is framed as a problem to be dealt with for the benefit of women, in the interest of gender equality. In fact, it is an economic issue that affects everyone.

http://www.kauffman.org/uploadedFiles/Growing_the_Economy_Women_Entrepreneurs.pdf

Source: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
Type: Research Report - Non Profit Org

2009 March

ION's 2009 report addresses the broader issue of board evaluation and succession planning. These are increasingly critical issues that provide a useful framework for looking at board composition and the case for increasing the presence of women in the boardroom. The following analysis also suggests ways in which today’s challenges can be turned into opportunities for meaningful change – change that will at the same time strengthen American corporations and open the doors wider for women leaders.

http://www.ionwomen.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/ION2009report.pdf

Source: ION
Type: Research Report - Non Profit Org

2010 November 10

WITHOUT a doubt, the biggest event in philanthropy this year was the Giving Pledge, a commitment by 40 of the wealthiest Americans to give away at least half of their fortunes, about $600 billion. Now, about three months later, the pledge has not yet visibly inspired new major gifts or attracted additional signatures but has surely created discussion and debate, about the wealthy, their giving and what it says about our society.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/11/giving/11PLEDGE.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=The Pledge&st=cse

Source: New York Times
Type: Article

1995 September

Using research carried out in a variety of workplace settings, linguist Deborah Tannen demonstrates how conversational style often overrides what we say, affecting who gets heard, who gets credit, and what gets done. Tannen's linguistic perspective provides managers with insight into why there is so much poor communication. Gender plays an important role. Tannen traces the ways in which women's styles can undermine them in the workplace, making them seem less competent, confident, and self-assured than they are.

http://hbr.org/product/power-of-talk-who-gets-heard-and-why/an/95510-PDF-ENG

Source: Harvard Business Review
Type: Research Report - Non Profit Org

2009 August 5

In the BRICs and N-11 countries, gender gaps in education, employment, health and political representation are narrowing. At the same time, laws and social norms that have discriminated against women are shifting in many countries.Together, these factors are giving women greater decision-making power. Improving gender equality coincides with the rapid growth of the “global middle class.” Sectors likely to benefit from women’s growing buying power include food, healthcare, education, childcare, apparel, consumer durables and financial services.

http://www2.goldmansachs.com/ideas/global-markets-institute/featured-research/power-of-purse.html

Source: Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Type: Research Report - For Profit Org

2010 November 3

Private-run enterprises donated around 5.43 billion yuan ($812 million) in 2009, which accounted for about 41.35 percent of total donations from enterprises in 2009, according to an annual report on China's philanthropy development released by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences on Tuesday. A total of 282 private-run enterprises donated more than 1 million yuan each, which amounted to 62.9 percent of enterprises involved in charity last year, said the report.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/7185943.html

Source: People's Daily Online
Type: Article