| Throughout the past decade, workplace
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| | couple of years in terms of management
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| diversity issues have allowed
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| | positions. The caveat however is, women
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| organizations to adjust their policies in
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| | who achieve these positions are usually
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| response to the need for workplace
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| | placed under closer scrutiny and their
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| equality in all aspects. As a result of
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| | evaluation is not always positive. While
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| the dynamic political, social and
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| | studies propose that women are likely to
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| economic changes, some companies have
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| | receive positive evaluations when their
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| willingly become more inclusive,
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| | leadership roles are defined in feminine
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| integrating women, people of color, gays
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| | terms, on traditional, masculine measures
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| lesbians, and individuals with
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| | of leadership, women's leadership is
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| disabilities into their workforce at all
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| | often perceived to be lower than their
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| levels of their organizations. However,
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| | male counterparts.Some women have
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| others have failed to make this paradigm
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| | developed strategies for overcoming
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| shift.
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| | workplace barriers to career advancement
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| The Federal government has failed to see
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| | and achieved senior positions. While
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| the benefits of a diverse workforce,
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| | these barriers do not restrict the
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| which is evident by the lack of diversity
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| | careers of all women that they impact, a
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| of the people it serves. Research by the
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| | significant number is evident from the
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| Center for Creative Leadership (2002),
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| | poor representation of women at senior
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| show women in business have been required
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| | levels. The limited number of women
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| to adapt to a well established hierarchal
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| | reaching the highest positions in the
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| system built around the strengths of its
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| | government indicates that further
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| majority of male players. As women have
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| | attention to overcoming these barriers in
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| entered the workplace, they initially try
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| | the future is necessary.Ms. Lewis is
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| to create only a modest variant in a male
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| | President and CEO of The Deline Institute
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| dominated workplace. Gender diversity
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| | for Professional Development, a training
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| could be very beneficial to the Federal
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| | organization that provides workshops and
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| government, causing greater creativity in
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| | seminars geared toward professional
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| group decision-making and improved task
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| | businesswomen. Ms. Lewis is a native of
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| performance.Leadership is usually
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| | New Orleans, Louisiana. She is an
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| considered to be predominantly a male
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| | Adjunct Professor at National-Louis
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| prerogative in corporate, political,
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| | University, where she teaches Human
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| military, and other sectors of our
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| | Resource Management. Ms. Lewis has
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| society. This might explain why, although
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| | conducted training for the Federal
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| women have gained increased access to
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| | government on Diversity, as well as EEO
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| supervisory and middle management
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| | regulations and guidelines. Ms. Lewis
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| positions, they remain underrepresented
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| | is a certified trainer with the
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| in leadership positions. Throughout
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| | Professional Women Network, specializing
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| history, women have been contributors to
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| | in the area of Diversity with an emphasis
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| society, helped shaped America, and
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| | in Women's Issues. Ms. Lewis is a member
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| exercised their power and their abilities
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| | of the Professional Woman Network and
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| through various interests. But the
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| | Professional Woman Speakers Bureau; the
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| recognition as leaders is still slow to
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| | National Association of Female
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| come.Women are still confronted by an
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| | Executives; The African American Federal
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| invisible barrier preventing their rise
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| | Executive Association and Federally
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| into leadership ranks the "glass
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| | Employed Women. Ms. Lewis' knowledge of
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| ceiling." However, studies indicate that
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| | business and professionalism is supported
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| women are inching through the glass
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| | by 21 years of work experience in the
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| ceiling that has prevented them from
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| | military and 18 years of continuous work
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| attaining leadership positions. When we
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| | experience as a civilian with the Federal
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| look at the surveys and research, women
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| | government.
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| seem to have progressed in the last
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