Custom widow treatments as personal as your signature. CEO Jill Barad was one of only four women to lead a Fortune 500 company. Seeing women in power- ful positions provides role models for the next generation, Parr says. The second reason for the lack of a female force in the professional world is that, up until recently, men who were less inclined to elevate women domi- nated the non-profit boards. Now, there are greater numbers of women with Ell-time jobs, and men open to work- ing with them, populating the boards and management-search committees. As the demographics of a board shifts, there's a greater propensity to consider all candidates, regardless of gender. "Women are giving more dollars than ever before," Parr adds. "They have more power and more say." Dina Shtull-Lieber is with Project STaR, a social work program at the University of Michigan that offers training and education up to the mas- ter's level for future Jewish communal service workers. She sees an average of about 10 students per year; the vast majority are female. While the pro- gram does not give specific instruc- tion on encountering the so-called "glass ceiling," it has held forums addressing the topic with a panel of professionals culled from the Detroit Federation. Shtull-Lieber said her stu- dents are highly sought after, regard- less of their gender. "Our focus is on what they can accomplish," Shtull-Lieber says. cent of those 53 to 63 years old. "There are a lot of theories [as to why men populated the boards so heavily in the past]," says Landau. "Some of it is tied to money, with money translating to power and influ- ence. Some of it is tied to the prestige given to people who have achieved professionally. Up until the last 20 years, those people were men. "But the picture is different now Women are achieving in corporate life and moving up the ladder and do have more power and influence and money," she says. Which is why it has never been more important to recruit more women, management adviser Bronznick adds. According to the Census Bureau, women control more than 60 percent of the nation's wealth, having most of the say in everything from car purchases to phil- anthropic donations. Because of this gain in financial mobility, Jewish communal groups should pro-actively change the way they view women's participation on boards and commit- tees and recruit more women to hold positions of leadership, lest they turn them off altogether, Bronznick says. "I feel that it is completely incor- rect that anything this deep will recti- fy itself. In fact, if we don't take some pro-active steps, the opposite will happen," she says. 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