Deadline- July 27, 2012
Countries/Region- U.S
Seeking applications for Advancing Aspirations Global Scholarships (AAGS) For global advancement to create Effective Leadership for Popular Culture and Positive Role Models for Women and Girls.
Females are underrepresented in leadership across most sectors of business and society despite being 50 percent of the population. While many factors influence women’s ability to lead around the world – education, personal freedoms, role models, individual empowerment and determination – changing cultural perceptions and portrayals of female worth is a critical step to help bolster the number of women who choose to lead. Gender stereotypes about women’s roles are pervasive in 21st century global popular culture and 24/7 media. Typically females are poorly represented both in the number of women decision-makers in business as well as in the types of female characters and images of women and girls portrayed in film, television, current popular music and print media.
Numerous studies prove that fresh thinking happens when women play a meaningful part in creating solutions and leading efforts. Most importantly, results are better, outcomes are greater and business and communities show more significant and long-lasting improvement. Attendees will hear about solutions to enhance the ability to produce business success in today’s global economy and create an environment that taps all available talent and efforts of women and men everywhere.
Eligibility–
To be eligible, an individual must be enrolled as an undergraduate student in an accredited college or university, and be a U.S. citizen or legal resident of the United States. Students who have already obtained a bachelor’s degree are not eligible. Students are invited to enter both the U.S. Bank and Discover Prizes; however, if selected for one prize, the student is automatically ineligible for the other. Students are not required to attend the conferences in Atlanta or Chicago in order to win.
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