The Woodhull Institute
Developing a Community of Women Leaders
By Melissa Cober
In today's world, women have made many wonderful advances as leaders in their countries, businesses, and communities. However, despite the fact that women currently dominate the field of higher education, the overwhelming majority of powerful leadership positions are still held by men. Moreover, women that have broken this barrier often feel that helping other women will undermine their own successes. Women leaders clearly face unique challenges in their battle upwards; The Woodhull Institute for Ethical Leadership exists to respond to these challenges.
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The Importance of Women's Status for Child Nutrition in Developing Countries
Malnutrition affects one out of every three preschool-age children living in developing
countries. This disturbing, yet preventable, state of affairs causes untold suffering
and, given its wide scale, presents a major obstacle to the development process.
Volumes have been written about the causes of child malnutrition and the means of reducing
it. But the role of women's social status in determining their children's nutritional health has
gone largely unnoticed until recently. This study explores the relationship between women's
status and children's nutrition in three developing regions: South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa,
and Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Government Response to the Report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce
On 3 May 2010, the Minister for Finance and Deregulation released the Government Response to the report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce - Engage: Getting on with Government 2.0.
Some key points from the Taskforce's report include:
- Government 2.0 or the use of the new collaborative tools and approaches of Web 2.0 offers an unprecedented opportunity to achieve more open, accountable, responsive and efficient government.
- Though it involves new technology, Government 2.0 is really about a new approach to organising and governing. It will draw people into a closer and more collaborative relationship with their government. Australia has an opportunity to resume its leadership in seizing these opportunities and capturing the resulting social and economic benefits.
- Leadership, and policy and governance changes are needed to shift public sector culture and practice to make government information more accessible and usable, make government more consultative, participatory and transparent, build a culture of online innovation within Government, and to promote collaboration across agencies.
The report included 13 recommendations which are addressed in the Government Response.
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Taking the Lead: Women in the Workforce - A Strategy for Women in Leadership in the Public Sector 2007-2010
Attracting and retaining women in leadership positions in the public sector has been recognised as a key method of addressing the skills drain affecting Government and public sector agencies.
The State Government has recognised the issue and is committed to addressing it.
This strategy identifies some of the key barriers facing women who aspire to leadership positions in the public sector - including inflexible work arrangements, limited support mechanisms, and lack of innovative selection processes - and seeks to address them through a series of recommendations.
The approach demonstrated by these recommendations incorporates three key elements - professional development initiatives, support mechanisms and cultural change - and examines the ways in which changes to these areas need to be made.
Implementing these recommendations should result in clear improvements to the representation of women in leadership positions within the public sector.
The recommendations lay out proactive measures and initiatives to be implemented by key government agencies over the coming 18 months. To ensure that agencies are achieving the expected results, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet will facilitate an independent review and evaluation of the Strategy in the first quarter of 2010
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Posted by stephencanberra from Kingston on 02/11/2009 at 01:40 PM in Community / Dickson
The Karpin Report
There has been considerable national data and discourse about the minority role played in Australian management by Australian women. For example the influential "Industry Task Force on Leadership and Management Skills" chaired by David Karpin concluded in 1995 that while change in this area was occurring, it was at a snail's pace. It is now more than a decade since the Task Force Report was first considered, especially in view of its many forward-looking and well-researched recommendations, which concerned itself primarily with the management issues of the then-private sector. However aspects of the commissioned research of the Task Force have continued to be relevant. For example Task Force research considered a vast array of women in management literature to establish if there were any major problem areas or
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