Readings
Articles
Suggested Reading for 2011 Summit Delegates
Women Leaders: Driving Organizational Success
Call for guiding women to enhance leadership skills (Gulf Times, June 3, 2010)
Deliver for Women: Not a Request, But an Imperative (The Huffington Post, May 25, 2010)
European Firms Failing to Develop Women Leaders (The GrapevineOnline)
Get Men to Help Advance Female Leaders by Leslie Traub (Diversity Executive, Jan 16th, 2011)
Op-Ed by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Vishakha N. Desai: Women and the Workplace (Times of India, Sept. 15, 2010)
PepsiCo’s Indra Nooyi on Diversity and Leadership (New York Times, May 6, 2010)
The Double-Bind Dilemma for Women in Leadership
Towards Gender Balanced Leadership: What Has Not Worked and What May
Women as Entrepreneurs
Centered Leadership: How Talented Women Thrive
Ethnic Entrepeneurship Among Indian Women in New Zealand
Gender, Ageing, and Agency
Growing Confidence Empowers Asian Women
Impediments for Women Entrepreneurship Development
Men Outnumber Women Four to One in Working Abroad
Women and Soft Power in Business by Vineet Nayar (Bloomberg, Jan 19th, 2011)
Women Entrepreneurs in Nepal
Women Social Entrepreneurs Driven by Impact
The Transformative Power of Social Media
For Women Social Media is More than Girl Talk
How Social Networking is Helping Millenial Women Change the World
Political Power of Social Media – Response
Small Change
The Political Power of Social Media
Women and Technology
Gender Revolution in Science and Technology
Using Mobile Phones to Promote Lifelong Learning Among Rural Women in Southern India
Women’s Rights in Climate Change
Women in the Public Sector
Do Women Leaders Matter
Sri Lanka – Where are the Women in Local Government?
Strengthening Democracy through Women’s Political Participation
The Hillary Doctrine
Zeti Akhtar Aziz
Powering Economic Growth
A Guide to Womenomics
Big Winner – Women
Death of Macho
Groundbreakers: Using the Strength of Women to Rebuild the World Economy
Harvard Article Female Economy
Japan – Boosting Growth with Day Care
Shriver Report: A Woman’s Nation Changes Everything
The Battle for Female Talent in Emerging Markets
The Gender Dividend: Making the Business Case for Investing in Women
To Fight Poverty Invest in Girls
Women’s empowerment vital for economic development, peace, senior UN official says (Xinhua, May 18, 2010)
Women Hold Up Half the Sky
Women the Face of Poverty
Working Women – Strength in Numbers
Women in Media
Afghan Women and the Media – Is Their Story Being Told? (The Huffington Post, May 26, 2010)
Asian Women Filmmakers Inspire Change
Global Media Monitoring Project 2010
Studio Kabul
Wanted – More Women in the Newsroom
The Business of Doing Good: Women as Agents of Social Change
A Changing Asia – Women in Emerging Civil Societies
Advancing the Rights of Women and Girls: Keys to a Better Future for Afghanistan (US Department of State, January 29, 2010)
Aung San Suu Kyi – Freedom from Fear
Educated Women and Social Change
Women and Work: We Did It!
Women on Boards: Realizing Gender Parity
Ambitions Meet Reality in India
Championing the ‘Tough Issues’
Group Sets Goal to Get More Women on Boards
Op-Ed by Vishakha N. Desai: A Seat at the Table (South China Morning Post, June 11, 2010)
New Research Reveals Sharp Differences between Men and Women in the Boardroom
Using a Board Seat as a Stepping Stone
What Women Really Want is a Meritocracy (Forbes, February 24, 2011)
More Resources
My Julia Child (The Huffington Post, August 3, 2009)
State Department/USUN Report to the White House Council on Women and Girls (US Department of State, May 28, 2010)
Global Gender Gap (World Economic Forum, December 17, 2010)
Last Communion
The Female Factor: Family Vaults Women to Leadership in Asia (New York Times, February 7, 2010)