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AdvancingWomen.com is the first website to help women break through the “glass ceiling”, providing career strategy , tools, resources, products and services to support women's career, business and leadership goals, and work-life balance issues; featuring our targeted job board at Careers.Advancingwomen.com for employers seeking highly qualified candidates and diversity candidates seeking meaningful careers.

AdvancingWomen has been a top Women's Career site offering diversity recruiting since 1996. Using state-of-the-art career site technology, strategic content, and deep ties within the diversity community, Careers.advancingwomen.com targets professional women, Hispanics / Latinos and other diverse, minority populations. We recognize and are leading major corporations to recognize:

Hire Different As Important As Hire Smart. According to James Surowiecki's "The Wisdom of Crowds", studies show that diverse backgrounds and ways of thinking can bolster innovation and improve decision making. Also, in this era of globalization, clients like to work with employees who look like them; in other words women Hispanics/Latinos, multi-nationals and other diverse populations.

Recruiting Clients

Corporate recruiting clients have included TMP Worldwide, Inc.,Sun Microsystems, U.S. Department of Commerce,National Association of Women Lawyers, CareerBuilder.com, Fedex Kinko's, Accenture Technology Solutions, and Guidance Software Inc.

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Career Strategies -- Business Strategies

Based on decades of business experience and in-depth research by some of the leading organizations in the nation devoted to this issue, Advancing Women

• provides proven strategies by successful women to deal with challenges women face in careers and business.
• presents these proven strategies along a continuum that becomes a successful career path ( eg. special features, such as the “pipeline to empowerment”: (including research, skills development, leadership training, visibility, and alliances)

Free Job Boards/ Forums offers networking and resources; a venue to share with others thoughts, experiences, resources, and specific job information and job offers.

Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, the first on-line professional, refereed journal for women in leadership is our professional career advancement and leadership research publication. It is edited by Dr. Dana Christman and Dr. Djanna Hill. The Editors invite authors from all professional fields to submit manuscripts which through their analysis and synthesis challenge traditional thinking and examine outcomes of strategies for women to advance and succeed in their careers.

Advancing Women In Leadership Journal is a core component of our concept of electronic mentoring, allowing women leaders to share their stories and experience, to document and pass along proven strategies for a successful career path. Many reviewers consider AWL to be among the most valuable resources on the site demonstrated by the fact that it hassucceeded in drawing a large, loyal audience globally, since 1997.

Management Team

Gretchen Glasscock, President/CEO, founded AdvancingWomen.com shortly after Netscape introduced the first Net browser, using the new platform to educate about and promote gender equity, "leveling the playing field for women and minorities", in effect, changing the dialogue on the web. Through careers.advancingwomen.com Glasscock has gone on to expand and deepen AdvancingWomen.com's focus on strategies, techniques, and paths to greater earnings and increasing career success. She is also steering AdvancingWomen.com in providing new digital information products and apps to professionals to accerlerate their career advancement and success. Glasscock attended Wellesley College and graduated from Columbia University in New York City, took courses at Wharton School of Business and is a past member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Women Business Owners - San Antonio Chapter. She has published and spoken on women's career issues internationally. Her content has been published in Fortune 500 companies like Citibank and Hearst, and has been published internationally by Cambridge University Press, by universities, military academies, medical and business societies, and financial organizations in Australia, India, and Saudi Arabia and translated into Mandarin Chinese, reaching a Chinese audience of over two million.

Carla A. Salinas, Educational Director, is past president of American Federation Of Teachers, San Antonio, an educator who has conducted educational workshops and employee training. She helped develop and taught the English as a second language program at Chrysler Corp. and General Motors in Saltillo, Coah., Mexico. Ms. Salinas provides oversight for the educational aspect of Advancing Women.

Dr. Dana Christman, Dr. Djanna Hill are editors of the Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, our ground breaking professional,career advancement and leadership research publication, the first online journal to deal with women's career issue. About the Editors:

Dr. Dana E. Christman

Dr. Djanna Hill

Founding Editors

Dana Christman is an Associate Professor and Academic Department Head in the Department of Educational Management and Development at New Mexico State University (NMSU) in the United States. She has worked at NMSU for more than nine years, having held an assistant professor position at Northwest Missouri State University and having worked with the Statewide Regional Doctoral Cohort Program through the University of Missouri. Dr. Christman also served for 14 years in Student Affairs in higher education. She has served as the Interim Associate Dean of the College of Education and taught at Nanjing Normal University in the People’s Republic of China as part of a Fulbright grant. Her research interests include multiple aspects of educational administration and leadership, including gender, social justice, American Indian, and comparative education issues, as well as processes of educational change in K-12 and higher education. Her scholarship can be found in journals, such as Advancing Women in Leadership, Educational Administration Quarterly, Journal of Research on Leadership Education, Journal of American Indian Education, Journal of Women in Education, Education and Urban Society, Education and Law Journal, among others.

Djanna Hill is a Professor of Education at William Paterson University of New Jersey. Dr. Hill has over 20 years of experience teaching and preparing educators for K-12 classrooms. She currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses such as educational foundations, research methods, and science methods. Dr. Hill’s academic degrees are from Howard University and Columbia University. She is serving her sixth year as director of Paterson Teachers for Tomorrow, a home grown urban teacher preparation grant program. Dr. Hill is also a recent Fulbright recipient. She serves on the executive boards of the Gandhian Forum for Peace and Justice and the American Council of Education (Women’s) Network at the University. Professor Hill conducts annual research presentations at major international conferences and publishes her work in books and journals such as the Journal of Negro Education, Qualitative Inquiry, and Multicultural Perspectives. Dr. Hill’s academic research is inspired by a desire to expand the notion of leadership and womanist theory, prepare teachers for urban schools, bridge science and multicultural education, and include arts-informed research methodologies.

Dr. Genevieve Brown,Dr. Beverly J. Irby are founding editors of Advancing Women in Leadership Journal. It was their vision to create the first online journal to deal with women's career issues. It has been their keen editorial skills, hard work, collaboration with and mentoring of many authors throughout the United States and globally which has inspired, sustained and continues to infuse the spirit and high standards of the journal. The founding editors will continue to participate with the journal through their editing and production of a Founder's Series of Kindle books, soon to be available globally:

GENEVIEVE HOGUE BROWN, Ed. D. Co-Editor & Founder of the first on-line international referred journal in leadership for women with Beverly J. Irby and Gretchen Glasscock, Advancing Women in Leadership Journal ;Dean, College of Education. Sam Houston State University, certified Professional Superintendent, Professional Mid-Management, Professional Supervisor.

Chair, American Education Research Association, Research on Women and Education SIG, 2007-Present.

Member, Executive Board, American Education Research Association, Research on Women and Education SIG, 2005-Present.

Cocking Lecturer, (Invited General Session Lecturer) at the annual conference of the National Council of Professors of Educational Administration, Washington D.C., 2005.

Co-Recipient of the 2005 Willystine Godsell Award for distinguished scholarship in the field of gender equity.  American Educational Research Association, 2005. (with Beverly Irby)

Member, Editorial Review Board, Journal of At-Risk Issues, 1997-2001.

Dr. Beverly J. Irby, Founder of the first on-line international referred journal in leadership for women with Advancing Women in Leadership Journal, ; Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, TSUS Regents' Distinguished Professor, College of Education
Sam Houston State University.

Co-Recipient of the 2005 Willystine Godsell Award for distinguished scholarship in the field of gender equity.  American Educational Research Association, 2005.

Recruiting, Sales and Marketing Team.

Our career site is supported by a deep team of experienced recruiting, sales and marketing professionals, continuously expanding our offerings and our partnership networks.

Technical Support

"Under the hood", the tech underpinning of our site is maintained with 24/7 service by a dedicated team of high level techs. Our job board is maintained by partner/developers in New London, Connecticut; our programming team is located in the San Antonio-Austin, Texas high tech corridor with technical support from a number of teams in India, each with specialized skills in various aspects of programming.

Our Commitment To You

Our customers value our commitment to overall satisfaction and excellence in providing career strategy and services and working with the teams who provide them.

Our dedication to a continuous process of improving the resources we offer enables our clients to reap the benefits of greater innovation, better decision making and greater skills acquisition opportunities.

Our vision is to be the leading provider of career services, information products and tools to highly qualified individuals and organizations who wish to enhance their knowledge and skills to achieve success.

Awards, Media, Corporate Sponsors

Advancing Women web site is also winner of Lycos Top 5% Award, Dow Jones Award, Beatrice-Yahoo Top Site, and WWWomen Best of Net, listed in Femina as a top women’s career site-Advancing Women has been featured in Elle, Self, Women and Success, and Fast Company magazines, Access, a Sunday Supplement, Business Class, an Australian magazine, and the San Antonio Business Journal.

Corporate Sponsors have included Forbes, Wells Fargo, and the Austin Software Council. Advertisers have included Nortel, Intel, Prudential, Disney, Merrill Lynch, Charles Schwab, Chase Manhattan, Citibank and Microsoft.

Future

Reviewers credit AdvancingWomen.com with establishing a great sense of community and empowerment and providing excellent resources to assist our users.  We are impacting users, not only in places like New York, California and Texas but in places where women may be on a different stage of their journey to full equity – places like Dubai, Singapore, China…..and we are one of the top sites in India. We are very proud that Advancing Women has been a driving force in this transformation and historic progression of the broad spectrum of diversity candidates' ability to succeed.

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Advancing Women Contact Information

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