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A Swiss investment company plans to raise awareness about the shortage of women on corporate boards around the world and generate...
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Now is an ideal time for colleges and universities to increase employee benefits, according to several administrators and consultants...
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"I had my first child when I was a first-year graduate student and my second, two years later. I plan to finish this year and...
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If you were a woman reading this magazine 40 years ago, the odds were good that your husband provided the money to buy it. That...
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Elinor Ostrom became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in economics, honored along with fellow American Oliver Williamson...
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Susan Bulkeley Butler, an expert on coaching and a former member of the Purdue Board of Trustees, will led a three-hour "train...
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This week I'm teaching Frankenstein in a lower-level women's literature course. Among the host of meaty issues, we discuss the...
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Reader Tekbek sent this article from ASEE Prism describing a study that examined students reactions to stereotypically male...
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It is usually an accumulation of small and large incidents that marginalize female administrators.
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The U.S. Coast Guard is honoring Dorothy C. Stratton, Purdue University's first full-time dean of women, by naming a ship for...
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Troubling inequities remain in career advancement between male and female college professors in English and foreign languages...
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A dear friend of mine recently received a promotion at work. She shared her excitement about getting the job, then said a part...
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A larger-than-lifesize sculpture that will inspire students to pursue their dreams while connecting the campus to its early history...
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At the one-year anniversary of the professional development group Purdue Women Lead, founder Beverly Davenport Sypher hopes to...
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Having recently marked International Women's Day, it's worth pausing to consider how women can remain competitive in this challenging...
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It shouldnt be news to anyone that there will be an enormous exodus from the workplace very soon. In about four years, nearly...
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Despite the increasing presence of women in leadership positions from Wall Street to the halls of Congress, more than half of...
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A great deal of attention is paid to the number of women in the upper ranks of corporate America (or lack thereof). The concern...
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Patty Briguglio has worked with many male clients who have no problem having the light shined on them and their endeavors. Women...
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Speaking to the press after appearing at a conference of women leaders in Brussels, she said, "Women who are in non-traditional...
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Think you have the skills it takes to succeed as a leader? Take our quiz and find out if a climb to the top is in your future...
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