Forum members learn about new Women’s Leadership Academy
Guest speakers at the Dec. 5 luncheon for members in the Triangle were Teresa Pierrie, the new principal of the soon to open Wake Women’s Leadership Academy and Julia Taylor, the incoming Dean of the Academy.
This event was one of a series of local meetings sponsored by the Forum. Contact us to learn more.
Update on Getting out the Female Vote
The Forum is continuing efforts that focus on getting out the female vote in 2012.
In NC, 60.5% of women registered voters went to the polls in 2004 compared to 72.6% in 2008.
Check out the introduction to the project and contact us if you’d like to get involved.
Membership in the Women’s Forum
For more than thirty years, the Women’s Forum members have been working to advance and enrich the lives of all women by leveraging the talents and connections of its remarkable members. The Women’s Forum is an invitational, non-partisan organization of diverse women leaders of proven influence dedicated to working together to achieve equality and maintain social, economic and political power for women.
If you want to get involved, please contact us.
Women on public boards
The Boards and Commissions Task Force report, Board Room or Boy’s Room? – Gender Composition of North Carolina’s Power Boards, was released in November, 2009.
The report found that there has been little progress in the number of women on major public boards, despite women’s relative success in gaining elective office.