Dr. Bernice Ledbetter Shares How Women Can Shrink the Corporate Gender Gap

In the Long Beach Press Telegram and the Los Angeles Daily News, Dr. Bernice Ledbetter, practioner faculty of organizational theory and management, offers suggestions for how women can rise to positions of business leadership, including board members. She provides five recommendations to aspiring women leaders: get educated, serve on a non-profit board, join a smaller company’s board, find mentors and sponsors, and once on a board, work to diversify the board. According to Ledbetter, “Board gender diversity, when transparent, will lead to greater respect and loyalty by consumers, and improve the financial performance of the company.” Read more