If the future is female, as some have said, the past may be about to become more so as well. The University of Oxford—the world’s second-oldest university and the U.K.’s largest institution for the study of history—has announced endowment of the Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women’s History, plus appointment of its first professor, Brenda…
A female engineer best known for being overlooked is now stepping permanently into the limelight. Mary W. Jackson, the first Black engineer to work for NASA and one of the pioneering women portrayed in the 2016 film Hidden Figures, has become the namesake of NASA’s Washington, D.C. headquarters. Ms. Jackson gained fame from the movie…
Historically, supply chain management has been a male-dominated industry. In most countries with developed economies and markets, more than half of all professional jobs are held by women. Yet in the supply chain field, only 39% of the workforce is female—and at the executive level, only 17% of C-suite logistics positions belong to women, according…
The preeminent organization for women leaders in supply chain management and logistics has new leadership of its own. Effective July 20, 2020, Michelle Dilley is CEO of AWESOME (Achieving Women’s Excellence in Supply Chain Operations, Management, and Education). As CEO, Ms. Dilley succeeds Heather Sheehan, AWESOME’s Executive Director since 2018, and Nancy Nix, who served…
The deep knowledge and top skills that Lillian Dukes has demonstrated throughout her career in aviation management have now won her three new roles at two leading organizations. At the University of Tennessee, the Haslam College of Business has named Lillian an Adjunct Faculty member and an Aerospace & Defense Advisory Board member in their…
To mark 150 years of educating women alongside men, Northwestern University is celebrating distinguished individuals who’ve been part of the Northwestern community and gone on to take risks, contribute to others, inspire change, and chart new paths. Among them is Ann Drake, a 1984 graduate of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern.