#Women In Leadership

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Uju Ofomata Aderemi from Save the Children Nigeria, met the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at a Save the Children event.

⁣The Duke and Duchess made a surprise visit while on their trip in Nigeria to Save the Children Nigeria. They were there to learn more about how we ensure children don’t just survive but thrive, and the work that Save the Children does. They also met with Save the Children Nigeria’s Youth Ambassadors, Maryam and Purity, who are tireless advocates children’s rights, and the beating heart of the organization.

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Nutrek has a received a lot of criticism but you have to admit the newer shows have done a much better job of showing more female characters, a wider range of female characters, and more women in leadership. And I’d say more positive women in leadership. We saw a lot of antagonist female admirals in the 90’s. If I had made this poll in 2005, most of the options would be characters we only saw for an episode, or brief scenes.

1. Philippa Georgiou

2. Michael Burnam

3. Kathryn Janeway

4. Seven of Nine

5. Carol Freeman

6. Killy

7. Cassidy Yates

8. Marie Batel

9. Rachel Garrett

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I love this little women’s empowerment thing going on between Mysaria and Rhaenyra. So refreshing.

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2024: The Rev. Carolyn Cavaness, center, leads a worship service. She is the first woman to lead Mother Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia.

(Photo by Michael Morgan)

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Definitely had one of those "being a woman in medical leadership" moments yesterday where I was called out for being too direct and aggressive for writing a pretty dispassionate email where I essentially said I wasn't going to cover for mistakes that my leadership made. Cherry on top was that this feedback was from a woman, who didn't have the balls to deliver it to me directly and instead had another woman serve as the go-between, because she felt like she was called out by me.

So I spent all of therapy today just ranting about my leadership and the lack of support that I feel from them and how I can't actually trust those people or be open with them about my feelings at work. That was a swift kick to the gut yesterday.

But I'm sure if I was a man I would have been told that I was being assertive and practicing good leadership skills.

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When it comes to Australia’s national regulators, women rule.

Women now dominate the leadership of federal regulatory and oversight agencies that enforce rules for business and the economy, with 33 women holding chief executive or chair roles. This signals a profound shift for the nation’s top watchdogs, once almost solely the domain of male enforcers.

Rapid digitisation and rising globalisation are making traditional black letter enforcement approaches less effective, leading to women with so-called solid soft skills, such as influence, collaboration and communication, winning top-tier regulatory roles.

Women are now at the front line of the battles against scams, identity and data theft, cyber ransomware attacks, electronic espionage, digital surveillance, misinformation, social media abuse and dark web criminality.

“It’s very different to the skills base you needed a decade or two ago where it was just about telling people what to do, and they would toe the line,” says Ann Sherry, a former head of the Office of Status of Women in the Hawke and Keating governments.

“Those jobs were filled by a particular sort of person cast as a regulator. So, in a way, it was almost an enforcement role, whereas the jobs have changed.”

The leadership of the federal public service reached gender equilibrium last year.

Sherry, who is now QUT chancellor and chairs Queensland Airports, digital marketing firm Enero and UNICEF Australia, says that the public sector has been better at promoting women through the ranks but that many women have also built relevant skills in the private sector.

“Many women have had to broaden their careers and build a broad set of skills to be successful. There is now a body of capability to draw up. The talent pool has changed, and the jobs require broader skills. It is a confluence of events,” she says.

The surge in women leading federal regulators compares with 19 women (10 per cent) chairing ASX200 companies and 26 women (9 per cent) who are CEOs across the ASX300, as at the end of 2023.

Competition chief Gina Cass-Gottlieb and Reserve Bank of Australia governor Michele Bullock (who also chairs the Payments System Board) are the first women to lead their institutions. Others, such as media watchdog Nerida O’Loughlin and energy regulator Clare Savage, have won second appointments.

A push to bring in new blood from outside the Australian public service helped veteran NSW regulator Elizabeth Tydd win an appointment as head of the Australian Information Commission. Carly Kind was tapped from a London think tank to be the new privacy commissioner.

They join a swag of women now overseeing vast swaths of the economy, including infrastructure (Gabrielle Trainor), aviation (Pip Spence), food (Sandra Cuthbert), petroleum (Sue McCarrey) and fisheries (Helen Kroger).

Others such as Rachel Noble (espionage), Julie Inman Grant (e-safety), Jayde Richmond (anti-scams centre) and Michelle McGuinness (cyber co-ordinator) are focused on rapidly emerging harms, including national security threats, identity and data theft, consumer abuse, online scams and fraud.

Workplace and safety regulators are now dominated by women too, including Anna Booth (Fair Work Ombudsman), Joanne Farrell (Safe Work Australia), Jeanine Drummond (maritime safety), Natalie Pelham (rail safety) and Janet Anderson (aged care).

The dominant role female regulators play has been part of a profound shift in the number of women in leadership roles in the Australian government. This has risen from a quarter of executive roles being held by women 20 years ago to over 50 per cent last year.

Battle ready

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb, who rose through the ranks as a competition lawyer at law firm Gilbert and Tobin, says her generation of leaders had battled their way through male-dominated workplaces.

“In those workplaces, to get ahead, we needed to target the areas we thought were most important to make an intervention and where we could most effectively make an impact.

“We actually had to build skills to succeed, which are beneficial skills in these roles.”

Ms Cass-Gottlieb says women have also had to differentiate themselves. “You needed to point to other ways of working, including creative and different solutions that drew from experience in various areas rather than a pure step-by-step standard career path.”

Australian Information Commissioner Tydd points to Columbia University research that measured creativity by analysing songs, finding that women created more songs than men.

“Digital government requires a creative use of proactive tools to identify and mitigate future harm. It’s the unforeseen or latent harms that are the most refractory and so we’ve got to look at diagnosis and predictive tools, and that’s where you start to get a bit creative.”

Tydd says she was attracted to regulatory work because of the value of promoting open government, transparency and accountability.

“I think that seeking service and purpose orientation are factors that drive people into this work and I do think seeking service is a very comfortable and well-established motivation within women.”

Demand for new approaches

According to ANU Crawford School of Public Policy director Professor Janine O’Flynn, the data on the importance of public motivation for women is mixed. However, she suggests that women’s more attuned risk and relationship skills help them to be more effective regulators.

“We certainly know that the most effective models of regulation are around how you can think about risk and how you build relationships with the parties that have been regulated.

“I don’t mean that in a sort of dodgy way. The higher the trust relationships you can get between regulators and those who are regulated, the more likely you are to get the outcomes that you’re looking for.”

Read the full article in the link above!

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Obii Pax-Harry: A Global Leader in Christian Leadership and Prophetic Ministry

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The Duke and Duchess of Sussex met with Save Children Nigeria staff in the Nigerian capital Abuja, as a surprise visit while in Nigeria. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex were invited to an event by the charity’s global ambassador, director and activist, and the couple’s photographer and friend, Misan Harriman. ⁣

⁣At the event, Meghan and Harry were introduced to two youth ambassadors, Maryam (23) and Purity (19), who spoke about their work addressing issues ranging from child marriage to gender-based violence, access to education and healthcare, and the plight of internally displaced children.⁣

⁣Maryam and Purity said: “It was an immense privilege to meet the Duke and Duchess of Sussex during their visit to Abuja, for us and for the children and young people in Nigeria that we represent. “Together, we spoke about our work as Save the Children Youth Ambassadors to ensure that children stay safe, learning and healthy, and the importance of having young people’s voices at the heart of decision-making when those decisions affect our future. We know the scale of the issues children face here, but we will not stop fighting for a Nigeria in which all children go to school, and all have access to life-saving immunisations against disease.”⁣

⁣Prince Harry and Meghan’s non-profit organisation, the Archewell Foundation, donated funds to Save the Children for the humanitarian flood response in Nigeria in 2022.

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Women Supporting Women: 5 Free Ways to Empower Female Entrepreneurs

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Hey, Boss Babes! Let’s have some real talk. Running a business is like juggling flaming torches while riding a unicycle on a tightrope. (Okay, maybe it’s not that intense, but some days it feels like it!) As a woman entrepreneur, I’ve learned one thing loud and clear: we need each other! More specifically, we women need to support one another in this wild world of business. You might be…

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2024: The Rev. Carolyn Cavaness is the first woman to lead Mother Bethel AME Church in Philadelphia.

In early November, the Rev. Carolyn Cavaness was already bracing for a big task — preaching the closing sermon at the fall convocation of the First Episcopal District of the African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia.

But as she was about to go the pulpit, she was surprised to hear she had received a much grander assignment: The district’s bishop introduced her as the new pastor of the nearby Mother Bethel AME Church, the historically Black denomination’s founding congregation.

Mother Bethel was founded by Richard Allen in 1791 after Allen, a Black lay preacher at Philadelphia’s St. George’s Methodist Episcopal Church, saw a white official at the church pull his fellow Black preacher, Absalom Jones, to his feet as Jones knelt in prayer.

(Photo © Jameel Morrison/jameelphoto.com)

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15 Lessons We Can Learn from "Lean In" by Sheryl Sandberg

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HER STORY: Leaders in the Cause of Christ, Women Disciples, the Conclusion

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Emerging Women’s Leadership Program - ILSS - What is EWLP?

The Emerging Women’s Leadership Program (EWLP) is an intensive 11-week program (with 4 days of in-person boot camp in Delhi NCR) designed to support the leadership development journeys of emerging women leaders in the social sector. The Program equips leaders with the necessary knowledge, skills, and tools to advance their leadership journey, and create impact in the sector.