Gender Imbalance – the status quo
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Commission on Women in Jewish Leadership
Publication Date
30-Dec 2011
Publisher
Abstract
The Jewish Leadership Council has established a Commission on Women in
Leadership in the Jewish Community to try and address the gender imbalance
in communal leadership and to consult with the wider Jewish community before
recommending solutions to this problem.
Whilst leadership is a broad term, the remit of the Commission is specifically
focussed on senior voluntary (lay) and professional leadership roles in communal
organisations within the Jewish community. Clearly, the issues is broader (and
the investigation could be much wider) but with the aim of affecting change
the terms are tightly defined.
The Board of Deputies have played an active role in the research and the
development of this document and the consultation has been a process of
close collaboration.
This report supports, and provides rationale for, the questions in the consultation
document. In essence these relate to the main issues;
1) The nature of Gender Imbalance: How great is the gender imbalance,
what causes it and is it improving?
2) Implications: What adverse consequences for the Jewish communal
environment ensue from this gender imbalance?
3) Interventions: what strategies can successfully address [the] gender
imbalance?
Leadership in the Jewish Community to try and address the gender imbalance
in communal leadership and to consult with the wider Jewish community before
recommending solutions to this problem.
Whilst leadership is a broad term, the remit of the Commission is specifically
focussed on senior voluntary (lay) and professional leadership roles in communal
organisations within the Jewish community. Clearly, the issues is broader (and
the investigation could be much wider) but with the aim of affecting change
the terms are tightly defined.
The Board of Deputies have played an active role in the research and the
development of this document and the consultation has been a process of
close collaboration.
This report supports, and provides rationale for, the questions in the consultation
document. In essence these relate to the main issues;
1) The nature of Gender Imbalance: How great is the gender imbalance,
what causes it and is it improving?
2) Implications: What adverse consequences for the Jewish communal
environment ensue from this gender imbalance?
3) Interventions: what strategies can successfully address [the] gender
imbalance?
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