Gender Equity
JTA: How Ruth Bader Ginsburg helped an effort to promote female leadership in Jewish institutions
An article in JTA covers Leading Edge's new report sharing the five “keystones” to addressing the persistent gender gap among Jewish nonprofit CEOs.
In the article, Asaf Shalev begins by describing the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's involvement in funding the project, before summarizing the findings of the report, The Gender Gap in Jewish Nonprofit Leadership: An Ecosystem View.
“To produce the report, Leading Edge researchers spent two years on surveys, workshops and listening sessions about the perceived causes of the gap, reaching 1,200 people. In that effort, the researchers identified 71 causes and synthesized them into five recommendations on how to bring about change. The report says that existing leaders should make gender diversity a priority in recruiting new leaders, and that overall staffing practices should incorporate diversity, equity and inclusion strategies.”
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