The Miseducation of Girl Bosses

Womxn 2 Womxn: A Gender Leadership Podcast

In our first episode, we ask the question, "What is the gender leadership gap?" We had the opportunity to talk to Dr. Catherine Hill who worked on AAUW's groundbreaking Barriers and Bias report and Dr. Bettina Shuford, one of the women of color in leadership at UNC-Chapel Hill. The whole podcast team was in the studio to talk about their thoughts and feelings about the gender leadership gap as students preparing to soon enter the workforce.

Guest Bios

Dr. Catherine Hill is former vice president for research at AAUW and is an author of many publications, including Barriers and Bias: The Status of Women in Leadership, Solving the Equation: Women in Engineering and Computing, and Why So Few? Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. Catherine’s work has been cited in many media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, NPR, and Time magazine. Previously, Catherine was a study director at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and an assistant professor at the University of Virginia. She has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Cornell University and a doctorate in policy development from Rutgers University. She is currently the Executive Director of the Women's Caucus in the Maryland General Assembly.

Dr. Bettina Shuford serves as the Associate Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at UNC-Chapel Hill. She has significant experience with strategic planning, policy development, assessment and diversity initiatives. She has been responsible for a wide range of student affairs functions, including campus health, student counseling, disability services, multicultural initiatives, career services, residence life and student retention. Dr. Shuford served as the Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs at Bowling Green State University before coming to UNC in April 2011.

Additional Resources

Barriers & Bias: The Status of Women in Leadership

These Charts Show Exactly How Few Minority Women Are in Positions of Power

Women in the Workplace 2017

Closing the Gap: Understanding How Girls of Color Become Leaders

This podcast is a creation of the Womxn of Worth Initiative at UNC-Chapel Hill with support from the American Association for University Women (AAUW).

This podcast features the song “mountaintops in the sky” by Artificial.Music, available under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license.