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Article: WLP's Multi-regional Meeting on Women's Leadership and Institutional change.
- Article from:
- The Middle East Women's Studies Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
- Author:
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On June 7, 2001 Women's Learning Partnership (WLP) convened a cross-regional, interdisciplinary meeting on women's leadership at the School for Advanced International Studies of John's Hopkins University in Washington, DC. The meetings were co-sponsored by the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies at New York University (NYU). Participants in the meeting represented diverse professional, cultural, and religious perspectives. Together, they closely examined WLP's model for re-imagining, fostering and supporting women's leadership and institutional change in the Global South. WLP's aim is not only to increase the numbers of women in leadership positions but to ...