Lagging on Women's Advancement
by Shifra Bronznick
The Jewish Week, The Jewish Week, Inc., November 7, 2003.
"The Opt-Out Revolution," a much talked about New York Times Magazine cover story, fails to distinguish between personal preferences about lifestyle and institutional decisions about the structure of workplaces and the pathways they offer to professional leadership.
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Leadership in a (Permanent) Crisis
by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, and Marty Linsky
Harvard Business Review, July-August 2009.
Practicing adaptive leadership is the key to thriving in an environment of uncertainty.  In one of the cases presented, the authors profile Julie Gilbert of BestBuy who increased the company's bottom line by shifting its focus to women customers.
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Leaky Pipelines in Leadership
by Shifra Bronznick
Contact, Jewish Life Network/Steinhardt Foundation, Spring 2004.
Women flood the professional ranks of Jewish organizations but rarely ascend to top positions. There is no shortage of qualified women in the pipeline. Rather, there is a leaky pipeline which perpetuates the gender gap.
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Nice Girls Don't Ask
by Linda Babcock, Sara Laschever, Michele Gelfand, and Deborah Small
Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business School Publishing, October 2003. Product Number: F0310A.
Managers who pride themselves on giving employees what they request may be shortchanging women, simply because men ask for a lot more than women do.
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Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success
by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce
Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business School Publishing, March 1, 2005. March 1, 2005.
New survey research reveals…what percentage of highly qualified women leave work and for how long, what obstacles they face coming back, and what price they pay for their time-outs.
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Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Women On The Road To Success
by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce
Center for Work-Life Policy, February 28, 2005.
Are women really “opting-out” of the workforce as last year’s media uproar suggested? New data in the form of an article and report says “absolutely not,” at least not in the way the stories indicated.
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Positioning Women for National Leadership
Shifra Bronznick
September 2002.
The Jewish community is failing to harness the talents of women in leadership. Women are seriously underrepresented on the boards and among senior officers and executive staff of national Jewish organizations, with few exceptions.
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Risky Business: Busting the Myth of Women as Risk-Averse
by Vipin Gupta, Sylvia Maxfield, Mary Shapiro, and Susan Hass
CGO Insights No. 28, The Center for Women in Organizations, SImmons School of Management, April, 2009.
Are women risk-averse as leaders, or are there gendered dynamics at work that distort how they are perceived?
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Sequencing: The Latest Recruitment and Retention Challenge
by Ann Hartman Luban
Journal of Jewish Communal Service, Jewish Communal Service Association (JCSA), Summer/Fall 2004.
The story of one woman’s decision to opt out of full time Jewish communal work yet remain connected to the field.
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Seven Ways To Make Our Voices Heard
by Shifra Bronznick
Journey, Ma'yan: The Jewish Women's Project, Fall 2002.
Strategies for increasing women's visibilty, from stepping up to the mike to giving credit where credit is due.
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