Barriers and Bias: The Status of Women in Leadership

Despite women’s impressive gains in education and the workplace over the past 50 years, men greatly outnumber women in leadership, especially in top positions and in STEM fields. From corporate boardrooms to the halls of Congress, from universities to the courts, from places of worship to philanthropic organizations, men are simply much more likely than women to be leaders.

Many thousands of books and articles offer theories about the nature of the problem and advice to individual women on how to stand up, step up, lean in, and make their voices heard. But the leadership gender gap is significant, persistent, and systemic. Individual choices alone simply will not solve the problem.

Catherine Hill's Barriers and Bias: The Status of Women in Leadership examines the environment in which leadership unfolds—in the classroom, in the workplace, and in politics.  

Join us for this interactive lecture from vice president for research at the American Association of University Women (AAUW), Catherine Hill, as she discusses her work exaiming the status of women in leadership roles especially in the critical fields of engineering and computing — and explains what we can do to make these fields open to and desirable for all employees. 

About the speaker: Before coming to AAUW, Hill was a study director at the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and an assistant professor in planning and public policy at the University of Virginia. She has a bachelor and master’s degree from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in policy development from Rutgers University.

What are my parking options?

The Marston Exploration Theater is located on the first floor of ASU's Interdisciplinary Science and Technology Building IV (ISTB 4), the home of the School of Earth and Space Exploration. ISTB 4 (map) is located near the intersection of Rural and Terrace Road in Tempe on the east side of campus. This seven-story structure is ASU’s largest research facility, and is accessible on foot via Orange Street and McCallister Ave. If arriving by Light Rail, exit at the University and Rural Road stop.

Parking is available inside the Rural Road parking structure just east of ISTB 4. From the parking structure, walk west and enter ISTB 4 through the glass doors on the north side of the building. Please note that a parking fee is charged upon exit. There is additional pay parking directly south of ISTB 4 available for $2 / hour. There is an automated payment registration kiosk on the parking lot's west side (the corner near the building).

Do I need to arrive early?

Guests are recommended to show up by 4:30 p.m. to gain entry into the theater. At 4:55 p.m. any seats will be released to first come/first served at the door.