An actionable leadership improvement plan enables you to leverage strengths and close the gaps on weaknesses. In this personal leadership development planning and leading high performing teams course, you will build your own plan that you can put into practice immediately and realize goals within the next two years. It lays the foundation for an evergreen process of selection and…
About this Course This course focuses on women’s health and human rights issues from infancy through old age, including information about positive interventions relating to those issues. Learners are encouraged to interact with each other through interactive discussions. It is important to us that this course be available to all learners. We encourage you to apply for Coursera’s financial aid.…
For so many girls in the world, going to school remains a distant dream, an unattainable ecstasy that hovers beyond reach. As champions for social change, we must understand just what women’s education holds for the lives of the female students we read about — and what it offers for our world as we know it. Exactly what is girls’…
Are you prepping to apply for grad school in the States? The following tips are for International Students applying to Graduate Schools in the United States. If you are thinking about applying to graduate school in the United States, you may be overwhelmed by the sheer amount of information required and the hoops you need to jump through to submit…
Dr. Jess Wade wants to share female scientists’ stories and get young girls to consider a career in STEM. British physicist Dr. Jess Wade has written 270 Wikipedia pages for trailblazing female scientists in an effort to get every woman “who has achieved something impressive in science to get the prominence and recognition they deserve.” Completing the feat in less…
Overview At Adobe Research, they create innovative technologies for software products to better serve consumers, creative professionals, developers, and enterprises. They bring together the smartest, most driven people they can find, and we give them the freedom to nurture their intellectual curiosity, while providing them the necessary resources and support to shape their ideas into tangible results. One part of…
Women are carrying nearly two-thirds of the country’s outstanding student loan debt. That alarming math comes out of a new report by the American Association of University Women, an education advocacy group, titled, “Deeper in Debt: Women and Student Loans.” To be sure, 56 percent of today’s college students are women, and so it makes sense that more women than…
Women are underrepresented in STEM fields. It’s a well-documented fact that fewer collegiate women seek and earn degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related programs than their male classmates. Why does this gap exist? Some reports suggest that women may feel intimidated by being the minority in science classrooms or face work-life balance hurdles getting an advanced degree while raising…
This five-course certificate program examines the issues facing women in leadership positions and offers strategies for handling them. Professor Deborah Streeter balances academic research regarding social norms and expectations with practical strategies for operating effectively within the workplace. She discusses how to outmaneuver the “double bind” dilemma, showing strong leadership qualities without being penalized for it. Professor Streeter discusses how…
Pauley Perrette is an American actress, best known for starring as Abby Sciuto on the U.S. TV series, NCIS. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, Ms. Perrette lived throughout the Southern United States. Before her acting career took off in the late 1990s, she attended Valdosta State University in Georgia, where she studied Criminal Justice, and later moved to New York City…
