Corporate America desperately needs more than 15% of its senior leadership to be women.
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Unilever, a consumer-goods firm, wants 55% of its senior managers to be women by 2015.
Patton writes about how freshman women should be "a little nicer" to senior men, as though women never date men younger than themselves in college, and therefore, there are fewer to choose from as each new class graduates.
So, how can we possibly have more women involved in senior management leading to higher risk taking when women take fewer risks than men?
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Young women need to see mid-level and senior tech industry women succeeding.
And on MBA courses, the classic avenue to senior corporate jobs, women make up only about a third of the students.
The 25 Fortune 500 companies with the best records for promoting women to senior positions have 69% higher returns than the Fortune 500 median for their industry.
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Last year, a senior Haryana government official objected to women employees coming to the office attired in anything except salwar kameez (loose tunic and trousers) or a sari.
Srini Pillay, a psychiatry professor at Harvard Medical School and CEO of executive coaching company NeuroBusiness Group, believes this parental dynamic may be a leading barrier to women achieving senior leadership roles.
According to the report, the Asia Pacific region leads with 29% of women in senior leadership positions compared to 25% in the European Union, 23% in Latin America and 21% in North America.
The European Commission is threatening to impose such rules across the EU. It would be better if women could rise naturally to senior executive roles rather than being forced on to boards.
However, the report says lack of parental leave and benefits and other supportive labor laws and regulations are among the least important barriers to women moving into senior jobs.
It is widely acknowledged that a culture shift needs to take place within the Vatican, and the Pope will be expected to promote women into senior management positions in the Curia.
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Know how to and develop women for senior leadership then move them into these roles.
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That help could include changing the Equality Act which exempts the Church from allowing women to take up senior positions.
In our study, mentoring necessary but insufficient for advancement, we found that men MBAs were more likely than women MBAs to have senior level mentors.
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For instance, 82 percent of working women want to become senior leaders, but less than a third of them think they have an opportunity equal to men.
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Other issues discussed included the progress of the planned recruitment of 500 additional community support officers, plans to encourage more women into senior leadership roles within local government and road safety.
Panetta is setting the goal of January 2016 for all assessments to be complete and women to be integrated as much as possible, a senior defense official said Wednesday.
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Recruitment firm Rockpools have been conducting a wide-ranging and rigorous search to fill the nine senior posts - ranging from head of men's and women's tennis to commercial director - that will form the backbone of the LTA's efforts to re-invigorate tennis in Britain.
Dora Bakoyannis is the first women ever appointed to a senior cabinet position in Greece.
While Lieblein and others have successfully risen through the ranks, the industry is struggling to attract and retain women in its senior positions.
No less than 79% of senior women in the sample said they aspired to a top job and 91% were keen to be promoted.
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Moreover, many senior women reported making personal sacrifices in order to succeed in corporate structures that assumed a partner would be home to care for the family.
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However, almost a quarter of the senior women said they relied on a spouse to be the primary parent, which may represent a rising trend away from the traditional division of labor.
Kelley Hardwick, 46, filed the employment discrimination lawsuit Monday in New York Supreme Court in Manhattan, alleging that coach Geno Auriemma followed her to her hotel room, grabbed her arm and tried to kiss her during a 2009 tournament trip to Russia with the women's senior national team.
Valerie Jarrett is Senior Advisor to the President and Chair of the Council on Women and Girls.
He also explained how he appointed women to his Cabinet and to other senior positions in his Massachusetts administration.
Vinnicombe adds that she has found anecdotal evidence that a number of senior women in the British banking sector have chosen to leave their jobs, rather than work in a "high pressure, highly controlling" work environment brought about by the economic crisis.
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