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Your Support
Makes a Difference!
You can make a real difference for girls and young women! Please consider a gift to the Institute to Women's Leadership this holiday season. Your investment in IWL programs will directly benefit students and support excellent learning opportunities. Thank you.
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Project GROW Inspires and Empowers Young Women
A new crop of Rutgers undergraduates have taken their places as mentors to adolescent girls in foster care. Project GROW, sponsored by the Institute for Women's Leadership (IWL) and the Graduate School of Applied and Professional Psychology (GSAPP), pairs IWL student mentors with girls in GSAPP's Foster Care Counseling Project. Rutgers students are learning about mentoring and the challenges of the foster care system while forging a special relationship to support and encourage their young mentees. Read how Project GROW is opening doors in young lives.
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Coming in January,
a complete calendar of spring events for the
IWL consortium.
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Taking Our Legacy Forward: Alison Bernstein Announces Strategic Plan
The IWL strategic plan sets out a bold agenda for the future of the IWL consortium. Thanks to the hard work of our "Blue Skies"
committee along with planning consultant Dr. Janice Petrovich, the IWL advisory committee and staff, university leaders, and IWL stakeholders, we have a compelling vision for the next six years.
In its role as a catalyst and incubator for innovative programs, the IWL will focus on creating model programs that link theory and practice in fields such as health, media and technology, and philanthropy. As a core priority, IWL will continue to build interdisciplinary leadership education opportunities that deepen understanding of critical issues affecting women.
I invite you to read our ADVANCING WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP FOR A JUST WORLD: STEPPING IT UP strategic plan summary and share your comments by emailing me at arb179@rci.rutgers.edu. These are exciting and challenging times for women, and IWL's work to prepare transformational leaders is more relevant than ever!
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Film Facts You Wish Were NOT True
 | | Geena Davis and Alison Bernstein |
In October, actor Geena Davis' "sold-out" presentation as this year's Angelides Lecturer launched a new Women and Media Initiative in collaboration with the School of Communication and Information. As part of this new focus, IWL partnered with the Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media to publish a new Fact Sheet on Women in the U.S. Film Industry. In the top 250 U.S. films in 2011, women were 5 percent of directors, 12 percent of writers, 18 percent of executive producers, and 4 percent of cinematographers. Not only are women dramatically underrepresented behind the scenes, they are also grossly underrepresented on the screen. Between 1977 and 2006, women made up only 27.3 percent of single speaking characters. But women in leadership make a difference. When there are one or more women film directors, there is a 6.3 percent increase in on-screen representation of female characters. Click here for this newly released Fact Sheet. |
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Interview and Student Film of the Month
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Writer, speaker, and technologist, Samhita Mukhopadhyay, is the subject of an interview and documentary film by IWL Leadership Scholar Arabelle Sicardi. Ms. Mukhopadhyay is Executive Editor of Feminsting.com and author of Outdated: Why Dating is Ruining Your Love Life. This student film is part of the Transforming Lives Documentary Film Project.
Click here to see the film. Click here to read an edited transcript.
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Join the dialogue. Let us know what you think and we will share your comments in the next e-newsletter. Send your comments to iwl@rci.rutgers.edu
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