July 17th 2017 
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Playing it Forward - Their tips for women as they have climbed the corporate ladder.


Men are 46 percent more likely than women to have a sponsor or mentor. Find out the right steps to take as you move up the ladder!

Desirée Patno
CEO & President, NAWRB 
Speaker  "Small Business Sustainability Care Package"

"The value of mentorship is women taking the time to give back to other women coming up the ranks, in any capacity. It doesn't have to be women to women either; it can be men to women. Mentorship has to be flexible but it has to come from the heart. Too many people try to make a business out of mentorship, but they are not truly passionate enough and I don't believe they can reach the essence of an individual in these cases.(Vol. 5 Issue 2)

MWM Website Portal


The MWM portal is a great resource for finding a mentee, tracking progress, and meeting mentoring goals. MWM recently released a new demonstration video showing the benefits of the portal and demonstrating how to use the site.

The portal is designed to be a central location for information about our movement.  It connects current and aspiring mentors to organizations with girls who would like mentoring. Additionally, it provides MWM a way to then record and amplify the mentoring that is occurring nationwide.

Both individuals and companies looking for mentoring opportunities can utilize the portal as a resource to find mentees. Girl-serving organizations use the portal to find mentors for the girls that their organization serves. State and regional organizers can use the portal to coordinate efforts and track progress within their state.


For safety purposes, we do not connect mentors directly with individual girls online. Mentors must go through known, reputable and local organizations. The MWM portal provides a way for mentors to get connected with girls through these organizations and start mentoring.

After setting up an account, individuals and organizations can find a mentee, report the mentoring that they do, set mentoring goals, and track their progress. As part of our Be Counted! Campaign, mentors can also report the results of past and present mentoring efforts that happen outside of MWM. MWM tracks all this reported mentoring and uses the data to measure how much mentoring is occurring throughout the nation.


The MWM portal also serves as a great way for mentors to set goals and track their progress. Mentors can access data on pledges, see mentor matches accepted and offered, view completed mentoring, number of individuals they mentored, and any mentoring completed outside of MWM.

The MWM website portal demonstration video contains great information on how to utilize the site. It shows users how to easily set up company or individual accounts, connect to mentoring opportunities, and track and report mentoring.


View the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Keby04IUas and share this great resource!

Million Women Mentors Leadership Council Call and Power Lunch - July 18th

During the conference call  C ommittee Chairs will present on accomplishments, strategies, and next steps to further advance the MWM movement.
The call includes discussing MWM Partners, state and global strategies, technology overview, and much more.

AFGHANISTAN: All-Girl Robotics Team Will Get to Attend Their Competition After All

fter being initially denied their visas, an all-girl robotics team from Afghanistan has been allowed to enter the U.S. in order to compete in the FIRST Global Challenge in Washington, D.C. from July 16-18. The six girls have already landed safely at Dulles International Airport, where they were greeted by the Afghan Ambassador, Hamdullah Mohib.


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MALTA: Efforts to Increase Female Participation Must be Complemented with Culture Change

Increasing the number of women election candidates alone is not enough to increase female participation in politics and a culture change is needed, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said this morning.

Speaking on One Radio, Muscat said the number of women MPs was “extremely disappointing.”

This meant, he said, that half of the country was not represented in Parliament. “Imagine if he had a Parliament with not a single MP from the south, or the north.”


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MONGOLIA: How a Female Mongolian Entrepreneur Overcame the Odds

Starting your own business is never easy, but for Khulan Davaadorj the struggle was only amplified by doing it as a woman in Mongolia.

"Because it's a developing country and because it only has 3 million people, it's quite difficult to be an entrepreneur especially when you're young and a female," she says.

Davaadorj was one of 21 women business leaders who traveled to the U.S. this spring for the Fortune/U.S. State Department Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership. In its 12th year, the program matches women from countries ranging from Argentina to Zimbabwe with some of the top female executives in the U.S. This year's mentors hailed from many different companies.


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INDIA: TiE Delhi-NCR Hosts Women Entrepreneurship Summit 2017 – New Horizons

With a view to highlight the burgeoning potential of women in Indian entrepreneurship sector, TiE Delhi-NCR, the world’s largest network of successful entrepreneurs and professionals hosted the fourth edition of Women Entrepreneurship: New Horizons 2017 today, at Welcome Hotel Sheraton, Saket in the capital. The conference saw participation from over 100 delegates and dignitaries brought together to enlighten and share insights from the current gender deficit model.


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GHANA: Report Highlights Challenges Facing Women, Girls in Science

International Perspective for Policy and Governance (IPPG), an independent and non-profit think tank, has released a report on the challenges faced by women and girls in the study of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) subjects in Ghana.

The report is the final documentation of the deliberations from a roundtable discussion held on the theme “Gender, Science and Sustainable Development: The way forward,” which started in February to mark the 2017 International Day of Women and Girls in Science.


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SINGAPORE: Women in Reinsurance in Career Mentoring Initiative

The Singapore Reinsurers' Association's Women-in-Reinsurance (WiRE) Sub-Committee has launched its first mentoring initiative - "Mentoring on the Move", a speed coaching and networking session sponsored by Aon Benfield Asia, with 12 senior executives serving as Mentors to reinsurance practitioners seeking career guidance and inspiration.

The event, held on 11 July, attracted 36 participants from 20 insurance/reinsurance companies who were divided into small groups and given 15 minutes to discuss a career issue or challenge with a Mentor, before moving on to the next Mentor. Those mentored included men and women.

 

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Google Promotes STEM Education Within the Latina Community


AUSTIN, Texas -

A local non-profit called Con Mi Madre is teaming up with Google to ensure that Latina students have the resources they need to graduate high school and go on to college.

The organization serves over 700 Latina mothers and daughters in the community.

Priscilla Zambrano and her 14-year-old daughter Savanah are carrying on a family tradition


Female Excellence is the Rule, Not the Exception, in New Yale Summer Program

Speaking to a small group of local teenage girls, Yale’s Dr. Marjorie Rosenthal told them about her first feminist act. “In seventh grade, we all, boys and girls, had to take typing for the first time. Well, I said, ‘I’m not going to take typing because I’m not going to be anyone’s secretary,’” said Rosenthal. She laughed, “I thought it was a great feminist statement, but then when I became a doctor, I realized how useful it is to know how to type fast.”

Her audience, nine female students from New Haven high schools, laughed with her. Rosenthal was speaking to the inaugural class of the ForAGirl program — an intensive summer workshop for young women in STEM — about the personal and professional trajectories that led her to becoming a doctor, demystifying the process of entering medicine for her audience.

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‘I Love STEM’ Day Encourages Kids to Pursue Careers in Science, Math

ROUND ROCK, Texas (KXAN) — Just because it’s summer, doesn’t mean the learning stops for Central Texas students.

In fact, there’s a big push to encourage kids to learn about science, technology engineering and math, orSTEM,  through some hands-on fun.

Emerson, an engineering and technology company based in Round Rock, is hosting an ‘I love STEM’ day. More than 100 local K-8 students have the chance to take tours and try some demos at Emerson’s Innovation Center.

They will design a roller coaster and build a bridge capable of holding a textbook with just gumdrops and toothpicks. The event is designed to encourage youth to study and explore careers in STEM.


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NAWRB Magazine Wins Third Consecutive APEX Award for Publication Excellence


The National Association of Women in Real Estate Businesses (NAWRB) is proud to announce that for the third consecutive year, NAWRB Magazine has been awarded the prestigious APEX Award for Publication Excellence!

"It is an honor to have NAWRB Magazine recognized with an APEX Award for the third consecutive year," stated Desirée Patno, NAWRB CEO & President. "We have always focused on and showcased real women and real stories to deliver the impact of what is truly taking place in the housing ecosystem. To have this organic, human approach recognized year after year only inspires us to continue shining a light on the real issues of today."

The APEX Awards are "an annual competition for publishers, editors, writers and designers who create print, Web, electronic and social media." The category NAWRB entered is Magazines, Journals & Tabloids - Print - +32 pages and 2017 winners were chosen on the basis of excellence in graphic design, editorial content, and success in achieving overall communications effectiveness and excellence.
 
NAWRB has had a busy two years since the reception of our first APEX Award in 2015; through our advocacy, collaborations and inter-industry relationships, we generate actionable diversity and inclusion solutions helping shift the current landscape.
 

To read the latest issue of our award-winning magazine, please, visit the NAWRB website.

ACES: How One Bold Project (Almost) Achieved Gender Equality in STEM

The achievements and challenges of women in STEM disciplines were the focus of the Celebrating Women in Science conference, which closed in Auckland on Friday. Among the speakers was American chemist and physicist Cather Simpson, now of the University of Auckland, who writes here about her involvement in an intense effort to level the playing field for women at a university in Ohio.

In 1998, I joined the Department of Chemistry at Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) in the USA as a new assistant professor. Professor Mary Barkley and I, both laser spectroscopists, were hired to build a new area of strength. That we were the first women hired as academic staff in the chemistry department was such a remarkable event that it made the headlines in the campus newspaper. Today, there are six women with primary academic appointments in CWRU’s department of chemistry, and Barkley is the department chair. The fact that hiring a woman in chemistry is no longer headline material is due, in part, to a pioneering US programme called ACES (Academic Careers in Engineering & Science).


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Effective Approaches to Mentoring Women in Tech

Women seeking leadership roles often report a lack of good mentors as an obstacle to their career growth. They may perceive it as difficult to find a mentor. Women may feel they are less likely to "be chosen" as a mentee by those higher in their organization. They have to ask directly for mentorship. Women tend to have many mentors throughout their lives rather than one or two long term engagements lasting through the decades. Mentoring engagements are often short term and highly focused on a particular outcome.

New Study Pegs Women as 'Untapped Reserves' in Oil and Gas Industry

Women are still underutilized in the oil and gas industry. At least that’s what a July 12 report by The Boston Consulting Group and World Petroleum Council suggests.

Women make up 38% of the workforce in major oil-producing nations, but only 22% of employees in oil and gas.

Only 1% of the industry’s CEOs are female.

Globally, women hold only 10% of expatriate jobs.

Women represent:

  • 26% of employees at international oil companies
  • 13% of employees at national oil companies
  • 16% of employees at oilfield services and equipment companies

Broker Leads the Way with Strategic Relationships, Mentoring Young Colleagues

Selling employee benefits to employers isn’t enough for PK Kriha. She believes that mentoring and growing a community are part of her job description as well.

Kriha’s holistic, forward-thinking approach to the business is why she is one of EBA’s 2017 Most Influential Women in Benefit Advising award winners. To select this year’s honorees, EBA editors asked readers to submit the names of thought leaders who are making their mark on the benefit business through their unique approaches to client relations, benefits technology and/or mentoring other women. From the dozens of submissions received, the editors chose 30 benefit advisers to recognize for their outstanding achievements.


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In a recent Gallup study, only 11 percent of corporate executives perceived that college graduates had the skills they were looking for. How can we better prepare the next generation for the jobs of tomorrow?  

In her new book, Teach to Work: How a Mentor, a Mentee and a Project Can Close the Skills Gap in America (Taylor and Francis: March 28, 2017) mentoring expert Patty empowers professionals – whether they are bankers, lawyers, architects, accountants, engineers, IT specialists or artists – to bring their real-world experience and her project based mentoring model into the classroom. 

Compelling and insightful, the book reveals how professionals can embark on a journey to transform lives, mentoring one student at a time.  

“You have made a difference in the lives of these kids, and most likely you have made a difference in the lives of their kids as well. They have grabbed hold of your light, because they feel your encouragement and kindness, and maybe because they had no other. Thank you for your important leadership in this role.” 

— Chris Gardener, Author of The Pursuit of Happyness, 2010 NFTE Dare to Dream speech 

For more information visit  www.teachtowork.com

 
Women’s Quick Facts  brings to life insightful data on the impact of women that everyone should know. From purchasing power, to how efficient women owned companies are with respect to capital compared to men, this book takes the pulse on women in today’s modern economy. Not only does each page compile a broad spectrum of the most current data, it also brings the numbers to life in bite size, easy to read content.

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