International Women's Day

In honor of International Women's Day, we are taking the opportunity to reflect on ways to develop women's leadership through the lens of skills-based volunteering. International Women's Day shouldn't begin and end on March 8th. We hope that all of our partners and peers will use today as a platform to accelerate gender parity across all sectors and continue to build programs that intentionally grow and develop the next generation of female leaders.

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A Leadership Perspective from the Financial Services Sector
A funny thing happened on the way to writing this piece. I am addicted to online solitaire applications, and one of my favorites offers new backgrounds for different holidays. I was delighted to see that International Women’s Day was among their choices, and used adjectives such as courageous, strong and independent with names including Betty Friedan, Sonia Sotomayor and Gloria Steinem. Women’s leadership comes in many shapes, cultures and ages. It is sometimes quite overt and others times very silent.

Social Impact & Volunteering

A Cross Sector Approach to Closing the Gender Gap
Anyone who works in the nonprofit sector knows that women make up a significant part of its workforce and leadership – until you get to the top. Women currently account for 43 percent of the board seats among all nonprofits but only 33% of those seats at large nonprofits, defined as $25 million or greater in annual income.[1] At the staff level, this gap increases further -- women make up 45% of nonprofit CEOs but only 21% at large nonprofits, and they are compensated at 66% of their male CEO counterparts.

Social Impact & Volunteering

#PressforProgress on Developing Female Leaders in the Workplace
With tremendous global activism for women's equality, there is now, more than ever, a strong momentum to close the gender gap. At Common Impact, we recognize the need for gender parity across all sectors and are consistently working to hone our unique model of social impact to design programs that both engage and develop female leaders at all levels of their careers.

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