In Sector Led By Women, Glass Ceiling At Top - And Networked Feminism Below

More than 200 executives, foundation leaders, and social sector professionals gathered a short breeze from the spring blooms of Washington Square Park in Manhattan yesterday for the inaugural Women in Philanthropy Summit, convened by the George H. Heyman Jr. Center for Philanthropy and Fundraising at New York University. They met as leaders of a sector that is clearly dominated today by women at all levels of employment, and discussed trends in philanthropy under a rubric of practical femini...