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NYTimes: When Talking About Bias Backfires

Excerpt from 6 Dec 2014 NYTimes article by Adam Grant, Professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, and Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and founder of LeanIn.org: A FATHER and his son are in a car accident. The father

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NYTimes: Even Among Harvard Graduates, Women Fall Short of Their Work Expectations

Claire Cain Miller reports in a 28 Nov 2014 NYTimes article on findings from a first installment of data from a study by the Harvard Business School that tracks its alumni over time: Women are not equally represented at the

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Huffington Post: Girls Better At Making Story-Based Video Games Than Boys

Michael Rundle of the Huffington Post reports on a University of Sussex study that showed that girls are “better at making story-based video games than boys”. More at www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/28/girls-games-boys_n_6236472.html and at the University of Sussex website www.sussex.ac.uk/alumni/newsandevents?id=27860

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NYTimes / Guardian / Telegraph: Germany to mandate quotas for women in boardrooms

Alison Smail of the New York Times reports on Germany’s plan to introduce a bill requiring the country’s top companies to have at least 30 percent women in their supervisory boards by 2016.  In Europe, Norway was the first country

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IrishTimes: Gender Discrimination in Academic Promotion at NIU Galway

The National University of Ireland, Galway, is ordered to promote a lecturer overlooked over gender following a tribunal that found that “while on paper the promotion appeared to be a fair process based on definitive criteria, in practice it fell

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BBC News: Women Play Increasingly Powerful Roles at UN

Nick Bryant of BBC News New York writes: “Long an all-male enclave, the UN Security Council now has a record number of women. Does that influence how diplomacy gets done at the highest levels?” “I think we listen well …

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NYTimes: Vigilant Eye on Gender Pay Gap

Illustration of the gender pay gap by Robert Neubeckerin the NYTimes (14 Nov 2014) article:“Vigilant Eye on Gender Pay Gap“ Follow link to see a New York Times article that advocates for thoughtful fixes to the gender pay gap: “Vigilant

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NYTimes: Executive Women Finding and Owning Their Own Voice

Richardson-Heron, Napier, Miller, and Ming—four women interviewed in NYTimes (13 Nov 2014) article“Executive Women, Finding (and Owning) Their Voice“ In a New York Times article posted on 13 November 2014, Adam Bryant interviews four executive women—Dara Richardson-Heron, M.D., Chief executive

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NYTimes Video: The Metrics of Success

Jody Greenstone Miller, chief executive of the Business Talent Group, speaks on flexible work environments—www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000003229855/corner-office-the-metrics-of-success.html.

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NYTimes Video: Leading to the Goal Line

Dara Richardson-Heron, M.D., C.E.O. of Y.W.C.A. USA, speaks on setting expectations of leadership to Adam Bryant and Blaine Novak—www.nytimes.com/video/business/100000003229913/corner-office-leading-to-the-goal-line.html.

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