Since 2000, Babson College’s Center for Women’s Leadership (CWL) has been dedicated to advancing the entrepreneurial leadership of women worldwide.

Through high-impact programs, powerful collaborations, and funding and disseminating

research, CWL connects female students with role models in the business world, and

helps women professionals deliver innovative leadership to their organizations.

Despite a decade of achievements, CWL faces an uphill battle to ensure opportunity

for talented women. Recognizing this, the Center has undertaken a comprehensive action

plan to ensure that Babson is leading the advancement of women as contributors to, and

creators of, social and economic value.

To achieve this goal, the center is focusing on the following activities:

> Creating, supporting, and disseminating best practices for women’s leadership

grounded in Entrepreneurial Thought and Action®

> Providing innovative and action-oriented programs, outreach activities, and research

> Partnering with organizations committed to leveraging the talent and market power of women

> Addressing how the advancement of women is challenging existing gender norms and

acting as a driver of social change

> Researching women’s success in creating economic and social value around the world

EmpowEring womEn lEadErs, at all stagEs of thEir livEs

Though nearly 90 percent

of S&P 500 companies

have at least one woman

board member, only 60

percent of the companies

in the Russell 3000

Index have at least

one woman director.

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www.babson.Edu/cwl / /babsoncollEgE / @cwlbabson

www.babson.Edu/cwl / /babsoncollEgE / @cwlbabson

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Developing women who are ready to lead in a world that they will change for the better.

While the number of female executives has grown steadily in the last 10 years, a 2010

report by The Corporate Library, a corporate governance research firm, indicates that

diversity efforts in America’s boardrooms are being implemented slowly and grudgingly.

According to the report, “gender parity—measured both by absolute numbers and by the

levels of responsibility given to women—is still far out of reach.”

Babson College models organizational gender parity through its increasingly gender-

balanced administration, with women acting in leadership roles alongside their male

counterparts. Raising CWL’s profile among Babson’s other academic and research centers

will position Babson as a leader in developing women who are ready to lead in a world

that they will change for the better.

For more inFormation on how you can support

BaBson’s center For women’s Leadership, pLease contact:

“ I know the business world is competitive;

I accept that and am prepared for that. But,

I want to compete on an equal footing, and

Babson’s Center for Women’s Leadership is

helping me prepare for that.”

–haya aLzaid ’12

Among the S&P 500

companies with female

directors, only 57 percent

have at least two women

directors, and just 19

percent have more than

two women.

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43%57%

One-half of the small

cap companies in the

Russell 2000 Index have

no female directors.

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Diana Prescott-ZaisVice President of Development781-239-4382prescottzais@babson.edu

www.babson.edu/makeagift

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