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Article: Gender: a factor in leadership development programs.
- Article from:
- Corrections Today
- Article date:
- October 1, 2005
- Author:
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Author's Note. Some of the information in this article is from a report by the Center for Innovative Public Policies Inc. titled Assessment of NIC's Executive Leadership Training for Women, 2003, and the research and training completed under the direction of Sharon McDade, Ph.D., who has been working under a cooperative agreement with NIC on leadership development for women since 2002, at George Washington University.
The past three decades have witnessed a tremendous increase in the number of women working in corrections, a male-dominated environment. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, between 1990 and 1995, the number of women working in state or ...