Initiative helps women on path to leadership
In their column, “Society, not choice, encumbers women” (Feb. 19), Adda Birnir and Basha Rubin argue that systemic barriers explain the lack of women in leadership positions on and beyond campus. “Few have taken into consideration,” they say, “that these opportunities [to take on leadership roles] may not be truly open to women.” They claim that campus organizations such as ours, the Women’s Leadership Initiative, focus excessively on why women don’t actively choose to be leaders, and they further find this focus to be “unproductive and alarming.” We would like to take this opportunity to...
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