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Sloane Brown talks with Susan Francis, executive director of Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service, about how the organization provides volunteer attorneys and other professionals to assist in civil matters for Marylanders who otherwise couldn’t afford it, and works to change some of the systems that have created societal inequities in the first place.

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Hill Management Services Inc., a full-service real estate development and investment company headquartered in Timonium, has named Danielle Bridge leasing manager. Bridge, who has worked for the company since 2016, formerly functioned as property manager. She will seek out prospective ...

A summer program in Hempstead, New York, is bringing tech skills to women and minorities. The program is just one of the offerings at Springboard Incubators, a nonprofit that aims to prepare people for careers in technology with its “STEM ...

While I cringe at the thought of a monolithic voice expressing the needs of all women, I will boldly speak from my own experiences encompassing many years of responsibility for diversity and inclusion initiatives. Having said that, data seems to ...

Players on the U.S. women’s national soccer team urged a federal appeals court to reinstate their equal pay lawsuit, saying their greater success than the American men was not taken into account by a trial court judge who dismissed their case.

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Kendra Auker is president and CEO of the Evangelical Community Hospital in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. She oversees 2,000 employees, 1,600 of them women, and many of them in their child-rearing years. When COVID hit, Auker was worried. She knew some of ...

The report showed Maryland continued to lag behind the national average of women representation on boards at public companies.

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Versant Health, a national managed vision care company based in Baltimore and a wholly owned subsidiary of MetLife, named Kimberly Davis as its chief financial officer. Davis previously served as the chief accounting officer for Versant Health, where she was responsible for ...

Since her first job as a lawyer in 1974, Baltimore city attorney M. Natalie McSherry has been involved in the Maryland State Bar Association. Now, as MSBA president, McSherry will help usher in the association’s 125th year while guiding the ...

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Nearly 2.5 million women left the U.S. labor force in the past year during the COVID-19 pandemic. That figure is about 500,000 higher than men, who likewise are neither working nor actively looking for work. With women often the primary ...