LBW
League of Black Women
SINCE 1970
ABOUT HUDSON SCHOOL
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"Formed in the spirit of dynamic growth, social justice and intellectual pursuits."
OUR PHILOSOPHY
/ CORE VALUES
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We are Committed to Your Learning experience
To improve your experience in the course room and online campus, our dedicated usability and user experience professionals strive to create the best online learning experience possible. On a continuous basis, we talk to current students about the online learning experience and look for ways to make it even better.
According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the largest percentage of employed Asian,
white and Black women (47, 41, and 34 percent, respectively) worked in management, professional, and related occupations.
For executive level positions, however, it’s an entirely different story. In particular, Black women have certainly experienced great difficulty ascending to the highest rungs of the corporate ladder. In 2008, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reported that approximately 13.9 percent of the total private labor
force was Black or African American. They held 3.3 percent of the total Executive/Senior Official and Managerial positions, 7.6 percent of First/Mid Level Official and Managerial positions, and 7.7 percent of the Professional positions.
Black women held just 1.9 percent of board seats in the Fortune 500 compared to 12.7 percent for white women, according to the 2010 Alliance for Board Diversity Census “Missing Pieces: Women and Minorities on Fortune 500 Boards” released in May 2011. The report said that white men continue to dominate corporate boards in the Fortune 100 and Fortune 500.
Although women gained 16 board seats – 7 of them held by minority women – the overall 1.1
percentage point increase over the six-year period did not equal transformative change
/ TRADITION OF DIVERSITY
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OUR HISTORY
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/ OUR ROOTS
We conduct innovative educational research to communicate the collective voices of Black Women impacting societal issues and to promote joyful living as a sustaining lifestyle for Black women, our families, communities and our workplaces.
/ HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
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The League of Black Women, founded in the 1970′s by Dr. Arnita Young Boswell, works today to provide successful, strategic and sustaining leadership experiences for Black women.
/ THE FUTURE
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Immediately and deliberately diversify corporate boards by appointing Black women.
Develop programs for Black women that emphasize risk-taking and other supports for global leadership.
Hire and promote Black women to positions that match their skills, contributions and educational attainment.
Sponsor leadership programs for Black women that emphasize risk-taking and other supports for global leadership