Women2Women - Summer 2018 - 18

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Women2Women:
Changing Lives One Woman at a Time
A RECAP OF ANOTHER AMAZING PROGRAM YEAR
By: Rachael Romig, Special Programs Coordinator, GRCA

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t's hard to believe that another program year
of Women2Women events has come to an
end and the programming for 2018-2019 is
in our sights. Those that attended our events
this year know the impact of what we offer
both for professional but also personal development. As we have done in previous years,
we've shined the spotlight on inspirational
women in our community, offered workshops
to help women overcome life's obstacles and
had a lot of laughs. If you attended the event
with Heather Chandler, CEO of Sealstrip,
on the topic of Generational Differences in
the Workplace you'll know the laughs I'm
talking about! (Insert tasteful and honest
millennial vs. baby boomer joke here!)

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HAGEN HOPKINS 2017

For the program year of 2017-2018 we
had over 2,300 women in attendance at 22
events and that doesn't even include the fun
summer events we have coming up! We had
the pleasure of hosting Kathrine Switzer, the
first woman to run the Boston Marathon,
as our Launch speaker and at our annual
Spring Renewal Expo we were honored to
have not only Romy Newman, cofounder
of Fairygodboss, but also Jen Croneberger,
a native of the area and published author
who spoke about how to be your best self.

Our Latina Initiative De Mujer a
Mujer is an outstanding story of growth
for Women2Women as a whole. Since
its launch a few years ago the number in
attendance continues to rise and we reach
more Latina women of our community
each year. What started as 20-30 women
at the events in 2014 has risen to around
50-60 women at each event this year. We
can't wait to see the expansion next year!

Why Women Want
Professional Development

This year we dove deep into research on
women in the workplace, their views on
the availability of developmental resources
within their company and how we can
better offer what they are looking for.
Did you know:
* Nearly half (47%) of the women
surveyed in the US believe men have
better access to professional development and career growth opportunities
than they do. The US ranked 10th
in comparison to other countries in
the G20 who believe men have better
access to these types of opportunities.
* The percentage of women on boards
overall in the US is between 11-12%
and has barely increased in the last
decade which is stunning considering
research shows that boards with more
diversity perform better.

One of the special programs within
Women2Women that offers this extra development outside of our scheduled events is
our Lean In Circles, small groups that meet
regularly to learn and grow together. Lean
In Circles, founded by Sheryl Sandberg,
COO of Facebook, are found at companies

like Bank of America, Google, Zappos and
American Express, to name a few, and they have
embraced Lean In Circles for their employees
as they see a need to offer an innovative model
for leadership development for promising
employees. Today's young professionals are
learning and developing in different kinds of
environments than their predecessors, finding
peer engagement and mentoring at times more
relevant than traditional formalized classroom
training and an effective alternative method
of cultivating leaders.
We here at Women2Women see it clear as
day; women are ready for the development,
crave it and will do what they must to get it,
even if that means searching for a new job
with those opportunities. Our advice? Put
those development dollars back into your
company, and most importantly your women!

The Millennial Female
in the Workplace

As everyone knows, millennials in the workplace has been a hot topic. Being a millennial
myself, I am happy to see and hear the changes
in the dialogue on the ways companies can
change their workplace culture to help millennials integrate instead of being unchanging.

I recently read a study produced by
PricewaterhouseCoopers called "The Female
Millennial: A new era of talent" and I swear I
was reading a report about ME. Over 8,000
female millennials all over the world were
surveyed and a few excerpts stuck with me
from the 42 pages.
* To achieve sustainable change the
public and private sectors must change
the conversation; they must also focus
on developing talented junior women
now for future leadership.



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