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Women’s Leadership Women’s Leadership Initiatives Initiatives at Coeducational at Coeducational Institutions Institutions

tSydney Torres

Introduction

• Women’s Leadership Initiative:

a program that consists of a series of educational sessions that are focused on women’s issues and leadership

Women’s Leadership Institute

• Florida State University
• Two day institute
• Combined a curriculum of

institution history, gender identity, social structures, and leadership

Instrument

• Pre-and post-test survey
• 6-7 likert scale questions
• Questions based on institute outcomes:

– Enhance leadership identity & capacity – Increase awareness of Emotional Intelligent Leadership capacities – Enhance gender identity and awareness of social structures

• Two open ended questions on key

learning and women/leader identity

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Findings

• Across all outcomes there were

increases in the strongly agree

• response. ¡
• The largest increase was of 46% in

response to participants awareness of bias in society that can prevent women leadership.