BIG NEWS:  Senator Kirsten Gillibrand will deliver the welcoming remarks at our big event on May 18th. And, watch for more big announcements!
And please: we have events all year round, but this event is when we raise the monies needed to do the work we do all year.  If you like what this organization does to improve the lives of women and girls, please:

Attend! ($250; or $75 for women under 35) here
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The following YouTube video was put together by Scientific American Frontiers. The host, Alan Alda, speaks with Dr. Mahzarin R. Banaji (Harvard University) and Dr. Brian Nosek (University of Virginia) on how the subconscious mind can influence decision making, especially regarding gender and racial biases. They discuss several experiments that use the “Implicit Association Test” (IAT) to reveal hidden gender and racial prejudices.
Alan Alda takes the IAT test that Dr. Banaji created, which shows …

Fewer women seem to be climbing the corporate ladder on Wall Street these days. Amy Siskind says it’s time to get rid of bad managers with gender bias—it would only be good business.
Where are the heroines of Wall Street? They were so conspicuous when I entered the workforce—the “tiger lady” in Baby Boom (1987) who starts a multimillion dollar company while raising a child, or the Working Girl (1988) who rides the Staten Island Ferry and orchestrates a colossal M&A transaction. The women of my generation …