Leveling the Playing Field: Advancing Women in Jewish Organizational Life

This guidebook is about how to create a particular kind of organizational change in a particular kind of organization -- advancing women and creating gender equity in Jewish organizations. If you believe that gender equity is vital to the health of Jewish communities and want to turn your beliefs into productive action, then this guidebook is for you. The strategies and tools in this guidebook will be relevant wherever you are positioned in your organization. The goals and tactics may vary depending on your formal and informal roles, but the opportunity for exercising leadership on gender equity is available to you whether you are sitting in the corner office or just getting started in your career.

Shifra Bronznick and Didi Goldenhar are consultants on organizational and social change. Shifra is the founder and president of Advancing Women Professionals and the Jewish Community, and Didi Goldenhar serves as the senior program director. Marty Linsky has been a faculty member at Harvard's Kennedy School since 1982 and is co-founder and principal of the consultancy, Cambridge Leadership Associates.