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Asilomar Declaration and Call to Action for Women and Leadership (compiler)
(2013)
  • Susan R. Madsen, Utah Valley University
Abstract
This document was written by attendees of the International Leadership Association’s (ILA) Women and Leadership Affinity Group (WLAG) inaugural conference. The conference, which was held June 9–12, 2013, at Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove, California, USA, had the theme “Building, Bridging, and Blazing Pathways for Women and Leadership: Celebrating the Past, Present, and Future.” The purpose of this document is to capture and disseminate our collective ideas and to challenge ourselves and the world to change the status of women worldwide. Through careful review of the United Nations (UN) efforts combating inequality in leadership, we designed the conference to catalyze our collective knowledge about how we could and should assist individuals, groups, organizations, and countries to prepare and increase the number of effective women leaders. Conference sessions were designed to harness our latest research and to gather proven best practices in order to identify precise declarations and calls to action that we can all take to promote gender equality in leadership. This document demonstrates the continued commitment of the WLAG and conference participants to further the cause of women and leadership. It is also a platform for sharing insights of leadership scholars, educators, and practitioners with other organizations also committed to advancing women's leadership. We focused explicitly on the question: How can leadership scholars and development practitioners, educators, and others facilitate the expansion of women’s leadership worldwide?
Keywords
  • women and leadership,
  • women's empowerment,
  • women,
  • leaders
Publication Date
Fall October, 2013
Citation Information
Susan R. Madsen. "Asilomar Declaration and Call to Action for Women and Leadership (compiler)" (2013)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/susan_madsen/204/